What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B requires approximately 65.7 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 32B and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B is developed by deepseek-ai, a model with 32b 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 32B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B 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 32B by deepseek-ai — VRAM 65.7GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Author: deepseek-ai

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B is an open-source language model by deepseek-ai. Features: 32b LLM, VRAM: 65.7GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.38.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
Model Size	32b
Required VRAM	65.7 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	deepseek-ai
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	8.8 GB: 1-of-8 8.8 GB: 2-of-8 8.8 GB: 3-of-8 8.8 GB: 4-of-8 8.8 GB: 5-of-8 8.8 GB: 6-of-8 8.8 GB: 7-of-8 4.1 GB: 8-of-8
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 32B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...epSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B AWQ	38	13741	19 GB
...pSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B 4bit	51	7795	18 GB
...k R1 Distill Qwen 32B Bnb 4bit	29	2717	19 GB
...till Qwen 32B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	11	496	35 GB
PathFinderAI S1	0	64	65 GB

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