The real cost to run Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B

nvidia · 8.5B parameters · 262.1K context · license restricted

Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B — 8.5B params (nvidia). Auto-indexed from the Hugging Face Hub (120,721 downloads). Parameter count is exact; download size and quantizations are estimates.

What it costs to run Nemotron Labs Diffusion 8B — $0 markup

On your own machine — $0. Runs free locally if you have about 9 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 (≈ $0.10 a session), $0 markup.
Via your own API key — $0.17/1M tokens (blended input + output). No GPU to manage (rough estimate for this size).

Key facts

Parameters	8.5B
Context window	262.1K tokens
Recommended quant	Q4_K_M
VRAM to run	~9 GB (at Q4_K_M, 16.4K context)
Download size	~5 GB
License	License restricted

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