What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B requires approximately 29.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is developed by deepseek-ai, a model with 14b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B by deepseek-ai — VRAM 29.6GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
Author: deepseek-ai

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is an open-source language model by deepseek-ai. Features: 14b LLM, VRAM: 29.6GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.39.

Arxiv:2501.12948 Conversational Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
Model Size	14b
Required VRAM	29.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	deepseek-ai
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	8.7 GB: 1-of-4 8.7 GB: 2-of-4 8.7 GB: 3-of-4 3.5 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Beginning of Sentence Token	<｜begin▁of▁sentence｜>
End of Sentence Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...till Qwen 14B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	30	11411	14 GB
...k R1 Distill Qwen 14B Bnb 4bit	6	1563	9 GB

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