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How to deploy Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct on a GPU cloud
A 3.1B language model for chat and instruction-following. Full specs, license and use cases.
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct size and hardware requirements
3.1B
Total parameters
Dense (no MoE)
Architecture
BF16
Published precision
6.9 GB
Min VRAM (native)
| Precision | Weight size on disk | Required VRAM | Cheapest live fit | GPUs needed | Est. $/hr (full fit) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 5.7 GB | 6.9 GB | RTX 4070 Super | 1 | $0.110/hr |
| FP8 (quantized) | 2.9 GB | 3.4 GB | RTX 4070 Super | 1 | $0.110/hr |
| INT4 (quantized) | 1.4 GB | 1.7 GB | A16 | 1 | $0.059/hr |
How to run Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
Run Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct with vLLM
Generic example, not from the model's own docs: adjust flags (quantization, context length, parallelism) for your setup.
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct --tensor-parallel-size 1Run Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct with Ollama
Verified against Ollama's own library listing.
ollama run qwen2.5:3bRun Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct with GGUF quantizations
Prebuilt GGUF weights published at bartowski/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF. Run with llama.cpp's llama-server or load the repo directly in LM Studio.
llama-server -hf bartowski/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUFSource: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF
Deploy Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct on Aquanode
Aquanode has no one-click deploy template for Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct; you install the inference engine yourself with the commands below. Aquanode sells GPU pods billed per second, not a hosted inference API.
- Launch a bare GPU pod sized to the requirement above (1× RTX 4070 Super or larger).
- Open a terminal on the pod, or save one of the commands above as a startup script so it runs automatically the first time the pod boots.
- Run the command and connect to the resulting endpoint.
Launch a GPU pod