Model reference · open weights
deepseek-llm is an open-weight language model from DeepSeek. deepseek-llm-7b-base (BF16) weighs 13.8 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the deepseek-ai/deepseek-llm-7b-base model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | DeepSeek |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-11-29 |
| VRAM | 13.8 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | — | — | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | — | 1K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 4 | all 4K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 4 | all 4K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 8 | all 4K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 14 | all 4K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 31 | all 4K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 29 | all 4K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 37 | all 4K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 44 | all 4K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 59 | all 4K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 78 | all 4K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 3 | all 4K | 11.6 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 7 | all 4K | 15.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 15 | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 15 | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 4K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 16.5 GB |
| 5 | 24.6 GB |
| 8 | 30.6 GB |
| 16 | 46.7 GB |
| 32 | 78.9 GB |
| 64 | 143 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
Introducing DeepSeek LLM, an advanced language model comprising 7 billion parameters. It has been trained from scratch on a vast dataset of 2 trillion tokens in both English and Chinese. In order to foster research, we have made DeepSeek LLM 7B/67B Base and DeepSeek LLM 7B/67B Chat open source for the research community.
deepseek-llm-7b-base is a 7B parameter model with Multi-Head Attention trained on 2 trillion tokens from scratch.
Here give some examples of how to use our model.
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM, GenerationConfig
model_name = "deepseek-ai/deepseek-llm-7b-base"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")
model.generation_config = GenerationConfig.from_pretrained(model_name)
model.generation_config.pad_token_id = model.generation_config.eos_token_id
text = "An attention function can be described as mapping a query and a set of key-value pairs to an output, where the query, keys, values, and output are all vectors. The output is"
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs.to(model.device), max_new_tokens=100)
result = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(result)
This code repository is licensed under the MIT License. The use of DeepSeek LLM models is subject to the Model License. DeepSeek LLM supports commercial use.
See the LICENSE-MODEL for more details.
If you have any questions, please raise an issue or contact us at service@deepseek.com.
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.