Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base: GPU memory and hosting cost
Open weights · 49.12 billion parameters · Mixture of experts · licence mit
No cloud sells this model per token: to use it you run it yourself, on GPU instances you rent.
Run it yourself
It needs 122.8 GB of GPU memory at bf16, the precision it ships in.
| Cloud | Cheapest instance that fits | GPUs | An hour | A month, around the clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | a2-ultragpu-2g | 2 × A100 80 GB | $10.14 | $7,400 |
| Alibaba Cloud | ecs.gn8v-2x.8xlarge | 2 × GPU H 96 GB | $14.38 | $10,500 |
| AWS | p4d.24xlarge | 8 × A100 40 GB | $21.96 | $16,029 |
| Azure | Standard_ND96asr_v4 | 8 × A100 40 GB | $27.20 | $19,854 |
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