The real cost to run deepseek moe 16b base

deepseek-ai · 16.4B parameters · 4.1K context · license restricted

deepseek moe 16b base — 16.4B params (deepseek-ai). Auto-indexed from the Hugging Face Hub (37,440 downloads). Parameter count is exact; download size and quantizations are estimates.

What it costs to run deepseek moe 16b base — $0 markup

On your own machine — $0. Runs free locally if you have about 12 GB of VRAM at Q4_K_M (point Spanvero at LM Studio, Ollama, or llama.cpp).
On your own rented GPU — from $0.26/hr. NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB at the direct Vast.ai price (≈ $0.21 a session), $0 markup.
Via your own API key — $0.23/1M tokens (blended input + output). No GPU to manage (rough estimate for this size).

Key facts

Parameters	16.4B
Context window	4.1K tokens
Recommended quant	Q4_K_M
VRAM to run	~12 GB (at Q4_K_M, 4.1K context)
Download size	~10 GB
License	License restricted

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