Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 has about 1026B parameters. See exactly how much GPU memory it needs at FP16, INT8, and INT4, and the cheapest GPU to run it, with live hourly pricing from 5+ data center partners.
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To run Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 for inference at FP16, you need roughly 2238 GB of VRAM. The cheapest fit on Spheron is 8x B300 288GB at about $81.36/hr. Quantize to INT4 to run it on a smaller, cheaper GPU.
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Estimated peak VRAM including weights, activations, and KV cache. Add 10% headroom for production traffic.
RANKCONFIGURATIONPER GPUTOTAL $/HRDEPLOY
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8× B300 288GBCHEAPEST
Blackwell Ultra · HBM3e
$10.17/hr$81.36/hr
Live pricing aggregated from 5+ data center partners. Per-minute billing, no commitments.
Estimated peak VRAM at context length 4,096 and batch size 1, including weights, activations, and KV cache. Quantizing to INT8 (Q8) or INT4 (Q4) cuts memory roughly in half and in quarter.
Precision
Inference
LoRA fine-tune
Full fine-tune
FP16
2238 GB
3357 GB
8951 GB
INT8
1119 GB
1678 GB
4475 GB
INT4
559 GB
839 GB
2238 GB
Cheapest GPU to run Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 by precision
Inference only holds the model weights plus a KV cache, so it is the cheapest setup. LoRA fine-tuning adds a small adapter and roughly 50% more memory. Full fine-tuning holds gradients and optimizer state on top of the weights, which is about 4x the inference footprint, so it often needs multiple GPUs even when inference fits on one. For Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905, an on-demand B300 288GB instance covers inference and LoRA, while a full fine-tune needs several times that memory and often spans multiple GPUs. Check the live GPU pricing for current rates.
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Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 has about 1026B parameters. At FP16 it needs roughly 2238 GB of VRAM for inference, including weights, activations, and KV cache. Quantized to INT4 that drops to around 559 GB. Leave about 10% headroom for production traffic.
For FP16 inference, the cheapest fit on Spheron is 8x B300 288GB at about $81.36/hr. If you quantize to INT4, 8x A100 80GB at about $6.56/hr runs it for less. Pricing is aggregated live from 5+ data center partners with per-minute billing.
LoRA fine-tuning adds roughly 50% on top of inference memory, so it usually fits the same class of GPU. Full fine-tuning holds gradients and optimizer state and needs about 4x the inference VRAM, which often means multiple GPUs for Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905. The VRAM matrix above shows the exact estimate for each setup.
We read the parameter count directly from the model's safetensors metadata on HuggingFace, then estimate peak VRAM from weights, activations, KV cache, and framework overhead at your chosen precision. The estimate lands within about 15% of real-world use for most transformer models.
Quantized to INT4, Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 needs about 559 GB of VRAM, so it is too large for a single 24 GB RTX 4090 and needs a bigger card or multiple GPUs. At FP16 it needs roughly 2238 GB, which usually means a data center GPU. The precision picks above list the cheapest GPU that fits each setup.