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KAT-Dev

LLMs Kwaipilot Text gen 2 builds Open weights 404 dl/mo

KAT-Dev is an open-weight language model from Kwaipilot. KAT-Dev-FP8 (FP8) weighs 34.3 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is L40S 48 GB.

  • KAT-Dev is a 32.8B parameter open-source model developed by Kwaipilot for software engineering tasks.
  • It supports a context length of 131,072 tokens and is multilingual.
  • The model is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Summary of the Kwaipilot/KAT-Dev model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released byKwaipilot
Released2025-09-15
Parameters32.8B
VRAM34.3 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for KAT-Dev-FP8 (FP8)

34.3 GBweights, file size
262 MBcache per 1K tokens
879 MBruntime overhead, at least
131,072 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 5090 32 GB
5 smaller cards
———
L40S 48 GB4132K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB
FP8 without its speed-up here
205all 128K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB174all 128K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB256all 128K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified317all 128K107 GB
H200 141 GB4511all 128K138 GB
B200 180 GB6215all 128K176 GB
2× RTX 5090 32 GB
tensor parallel
12396K31.0 GB a card
2× L40S 48 GB
tensor parallel
246all 128K44.0 GB a card
4× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
256all 128K23.4 GB a card
4× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel · FP8 without its speed-up here
256all 128K23.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
137.4 GB43.8 GB
545.9 GB78.2 GB
852.4 GB104 GB
1669.6 GB173 GB
32104 GB310 GB
64173 GB585 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
KAT-Dev ↗ 32.8BBF16 65.5 GBH100 80 GB
KAT-Dev-FP8 (above) ↗ 32.8BFP8 34.3 GBL40S 48 GB

From the model card

What Kwaipilot says about KAT-Dev

Read the model card

🔥 We’re thrilled to announce the release of KAT-Dev-72B-Exp, our latest and most powerful model yet!

🔥 You can now try our strongest proprietary coder model KAT-Coder directly on the StreamLake platform for free.

Highlights

KAT-Dev-32B is an open-source 32B-parameter model for software engineering tasks.

On SWE-Bench Verified, KAT-Dev-32B achieves comparable performance with 62.4% resolved and ranks 5th among all open-source models with different scales.

Introduction

KAT-Dev-32B is optimized via several stages of training, including a mid-training stage, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) & reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) stage and an large-scale agentic reinforcement learning (RL) stage. In summary, our contributions include:

For more details, including benchmark evaluation, hardware requirements, and inference performance, please refer to our blog.

Quickstart

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "Kwaipilot/KAT-Dev"

# load the tokenizer and the model
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

# prepare the model input
prompt = "Give me a short introduction to large language model."
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# conduct text completion
generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=65536
)
output_ids = generated_ids[0][len(model_inputs.input_ids[0]):].tolist()

content = tokenizer.decode(output_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

print("content:", content)

Claude Code

vllm server

MODEL_PATH="Kwaipilot/KAT-Dev"

vllm serve $MODEL_PATH \
      --enable-prefix-caching \
      --tensor-parallel-size 8 \
      --tool-parser-plugin $MODEL_PATH/qwen3coder_tool_parser.py \
      --chat-template $MODEL_PATH/chat_template.jinja \
      --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder

claude-code-router is a third-party routing utility that allows Claude Code to flexibly switch between different backend APIs. On the dashScope platform, you can install the claude-code-config extension package, which automatically generates a default configuration for claude-code-router with built-in dashScope support.

Once the configuration files and plugin directory are generated, the environment required by ccr will be ready. If needed, you can still manually edit ~/.claude-code-router/config.json and the files under ~/.claude-code-router/plugins/ to customize the setup.

Finally, simply start ccr to run Claude Code and seamlessly connect it with the powerful coding capabilities of KAT-Dev-32B. Happy coding!

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