What are the hardware requirements for Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct?

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct requires approximately 98.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct and how large is it?

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is developed by moonshotai, a model with 48b 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 Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct?

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct by moonshotai — VRAM 98.3GB

Name: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Author: moonshotai

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is an open-source language model by moonshotai. Features: 48b LLM, VRAM: 98.3GB, License: mit, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Arxiv:2412.06464 Arxiv:2510.26692 Conversational Custom code Instruct Kimi linear Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct
Model Size	48b
Required VRAM	98.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-09
Maintainer	moonshotai
Model Type	kimi_linear
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-20 5.0 GB: 2-of-20 5.0 GB: 3-of-20 5.0 GB: 4-of-20 5.0 GB: 5-of-20 5.0 GB: 6-of-20 5.0 GB: 7-of-20 5.0 GB: 8-of-20 5.0 GB: 9-of-20 5.0 GB: 10-of-20 5.0 GB: 11-of-20 5.0 GB: 12-of-20 5.0 GB: 13-of-20 5.0 GB: 14-of-20 5.0 GB: 15-of-20 5.0 GB: 16-of-20 5.0 GB: 17-of-20 5.0 GB: 18-of-20 5.0 GB: 19-of-20 3.3 GB: 20-of-20
Model Architecture	KimiLinearForCausalLM
License	mit
Model Max Length	1048576
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	TikTokenTokenizer
Padding Token	[PAD]
Vocabulary Size	163840

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Quantized Models of the Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 4bit	9	1151	27 GB
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 6bit	3	390	39 GB
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 8bit	1	204	52 GB
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 3bit	2	143	21 GB
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 5bit	1	112	33 GB

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...i Linear REAP 35B A3B Instruct	0K / 70.3 GB	60	68
...near 48B A3B Instruct Mlx Bf16	0K / 98 GB	108	1
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 4bit	0K / 27.6 GB	1151	9
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 6bit	0K / 39.8 GB	390	3
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 8bit	0K / 52.2 GB	204	1
...r 48B A3B Instruct Abliterated	0K / 98.3 GB	122	9
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 3bit	0K / 21.6 GB	143	2
...i Linear 48B A3B Instruct 5bit	0K / 33.7 GB	112	1