DeepSeek R1 671B (MoE) at AWQ 4-bit needs 369.1 GB for its weights and 631.0 GB in total at 8K context with 8 concurrent users. That means it needs 8× H200 SXM5 141GB. Every figure is computed by tokcalc's open-source capacity model.
| GPUs | Total VRAM | VRAM needed | Decode tok/s | Aggregate tok/s | TTFT | Cost / 1M tok | Fits? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1× H200 | 141 GB | 631.0 GB | 0.000 | 0.000 | — | — | ✗ |
| 2× H200 | 282 GB | 631.0 GB | 0.000 | 0.000 | — | — | ✗ |
| 4× H200 | 564 GB | 631.0 GB | 0.000 | 0.000 | — | — | ✗ |
| 8× H200 | 1128 GB | 631.0 GB | 917.4 | 88075 | 184.2 ms | $0.1009 | ✓ |
| Context | Concurrent users | KV per request | Fits? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4K | 46 | 16.37 GB | ✓ fits |
| 8K | 23 | 32.75 GB | ✓ fits |
| 33K | 5 | 131.00 GB | ✓ fits |
| 66K | 2 | 261.99 GB | ✓ fits |
| 131K | 1 | 523.99 GB | ✓ fits |
| GPU | GPUs | Aggregate tok/s | Cost / 1M tok |
|---|---|---|---|
| A100 80GB SXM4 | 8× | 36698 | $0.0727 |
| H100 SXM5 80GB | 8× | 61469 | $0.0904 |
| B200 SXM 192GB | 4× | 36698 | $0.1817 |
Yes, but it needs 8× H200 SXM5 141GB. At AWQ 4-bit the total footprint is 631.0 GB (369.1 GB of weights plus 262.0 GB of KV cache at 8K × 8 concurrent users), against 1128 GB of available VRAM across 8 GPUs.
917.4 tokens/sec per stream and 88075 tok/s aggregate with continuous batching at 8 concurrent users. Time to first token is 184.2 ms, and inter-token latency is 1.1 ms.
$0.1009 per 1M output tokens at 8× H200 SXM5 141GB ($4.00/hr). That is the marginal hardware cost — add idle capacity, ops, and egress for the real figure.
369.1 GB for the weights at AWQ 4-bit, plus 262.0 GB of KV cache for 8 concurrent requests at 8K context — 631.0 GB total. Every extra concurrent user at long context costs more, so leave headroom.
It works. Compare $0.1009 per 1M tokens against the alternatives below — the cheapest option that fits the same workload is 8× A100 80GB SXM4 at $0.0727, and the fastest is 8× H200 SXM5 141GB at 88075 tok/s.
Same formulas, your context length, concurrency, and quantisation.