Motif · Chat and reasoning · 315B parameters · mit
Motif 3
Needs 378 GB at FP8 / INT8. The smallest real configuration today is 8× RTX A6000 at Lium, $3.36 per hour, about $2,453 a month at 730 hours.
Parameters315Bdense
Context256k tokensmaximum published
Checkpoint630 GBBF16, as published
Licensemitcheck before commercial use
Released—documented date
Smallest configuration · FP8 / INT8
8× RTX A6000384 GB VRAM · 98% used
- Per hour
- $3.36
- Per month
- $2,453
- Cheapest at
Lium
Memory · 3 precisions · 5 context lengthsHow much VRAM it needs
Weights plus runtime overhead, then the KV cache that grows with the context you serve.
| Precision | Weights | Weights + headroom | 4k context | 32k context | 128k context | 256k context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16published checkpoint | 630 GB | 756 GB | 756 GB | 758 GB | 764 GB | 772 GB |
| FP8 / INT8estimated | 315 GB | 378 GB | 379 GB | 380 GB | 386 GB | 395 GB |
| INT4 / MXFP4estimated | 189 GB | 227 GB | 228 GB | 229 GB | 235 GB | 243 GB |
| KV cacheone sequence, FP16 cache, included above | — | — | 1 GB | 2 GB | 8 GB | 17 GB |
Cross-checked on Hugging Face Oct 28, 2026: 314.8B parameters in the safetensors headers, 629.7 GB of weight files, attention layout from config.json (53 layers, latent rank 512). Method: weights as published at the native precision, verified on Hugging Face 2026-10-28; other precisions estimated at 1 (8-bit) and 0.6 (4-bit) bytes per parameter; × 1.2 runtime headroom; KV cache = 1152 bytes per token per layer × 53 full-attention layers (FP16 cache, one sequence).config.json ↗
Smallest configuration per GPU · 110 GPUs · cheapest eligible on-demand offer per GPU count, every provider on fileWhat it costs to run, GPU by GPU
The fewest GPUs of one type whose total memory fits the model at short context, priced from the cheapest eligible on-demand offer for exactly that count (45-day window, newest reading per provider), with the next providers beside it. Monthly = 730 hours.
| GPU | Smallest config | VRAM used | $ / hour | $ / month | Cheapest at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX A6000Best fit | 8× 48 GB384 GB total | 98% tight | $3.36 | $2,453 | LiumTrust 40 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also LeaderGPU $3.58, Verda $6.62 |
| L40S | 8× 48 GB384 GB total | 98% tight | $3.74 | $2,727 |  Vast.aiTrust 78 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also Lium $6.00, GPU.ai $6.40 |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 4× 96 GB384 GB total | 98% tight | $3.84 | $2,805 | Vast.aiTrust 78 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also UpCloud $3.89, Hetzner $6.44 |
| Gaudi 2 | 4× 96 GB384 GB total | 98% tight | $4.18 | $3,052 |  Cyfuture AInot scored · read Nov 2 · receipt |
| A40 | 8× 48 GB384 GB total | 98% tight | $4.61 | $3,364 |  LeaderGPUTrust 59 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also Exoscale $8.36 |
| RTX 6000 Ada | 8× 48 GB384 GB total | 98% tight | $5.20 | $3,796 |  GPU.ainot scored · read Nov 2 · receipt · also io.net $5.46, QuantaCloud $6.21 |
| MI300X | 2× 192 GB384 GB total | 98% tight | $5.71 | $4,167 | Cyfuture AInot scored · read Nov 2 · receipt · also Hot Aisle $5.98, AtmosCompute $6.69 |
| MI325X | 2× 256 GB512 GB total | 74% | $6.21 | $4,536 | Cyfuture AInot scored · read Nov 2 · receipt |
| L40 | 8× 48 GB384 GB total | 98% tight | $8.40 | $6,132 |  OblivusTrust 82 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also CoreWeave $10.00, AtmosCompute $12.21 |
| A100 80GB | 8× 80 GB640 GB total | 59% | $8.54 | $6,231 | Vast.aiTrust 78 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also Edgevana $9.82, GPU.ai $10.00 |
| H200 NVL | 4× 141 GB564 GB total | 67% | $10.67 | $7,788 | Vast.aiTrust 78 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also IONOS $13.04, Geodd $13.56 |
| B300 | 2× 288 GB576 GB total | 66% | $11.65 | $8,506 |  UpCloudTrust 75 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also FPT AI Factory $13.98, Vast.ai $17.00 |
| H100 | 8× 80 GB640 GB total | 59% | $13.67 | $9,982 |  GcoreTrust 80 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also Airon AI $15.04, UpCloud $16.00 |
| H200 | 4× 141 GB564 GB total | 67% | $14.76 | $10,775 |  Theta EdgeCloudnot scored · read Nov 2 · receipt · also Canopy Wave $16.00, Hugging Face $20.00 |
| B200 | 4× 180 GB720 GB total | 53% | $16.46 | $12,013 | UpCloudTrust 75 · read Nov 2 · receipt · also Deep Infra $19.56, Lambda $27.16 |
| H100 NVL | 8× 94 GB752 GB total | 50% | $16.48 | $12,030 | GPU.ainot scored · read Nov 2 · receipt · also Spheron $21.97, AtmosCompute $35.73 |
| MI355X | 8× 288 GB2304 GB total | 16% | $23.60 | $17,228 |  TensorWaveTrust 64 · read Nov 2 · receipt |
| GB300 | 2× 288 GB576 GB total | 66% | $26.11 | $19,060 |  VerdaTrust 81 · read Nov 2 · receipt |
| B200 CC | 4× 180 GB720 GB total | 53% | $36.19 | $26,419 | VerdaTrust 81 · read Nov 2 · receipt |
| B300 CC | 4× 288 GB1152 GB total | 33% | $46.31 | $33,806 | VerdaTrust 81 · read Nov 2 · receipt |
| A800 80GB PCIe | 8× 80 GB640 GB total | 59% | $50.80 | $37,088 |  Volcano Enginenot scored · read Nov 2 · receipt |
Throughput estimates · Oct 4, 2026Tokens per second, and what a million costs
Chat and reasoning. Speed estimated from memory bandwidth and model size, never measured. The cost per 1M output tokens is an estimate at the prices read on Oct 4, 2026; it is not recomputed here.
| GPU | Cards | Precision | tok/s per user | per 1M output tokens · estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MI300X | 2 | FP8 | 15.7 | $2.18 |
| B200 | 4 | FP8 | 51.1 | $2.99 |
| H100 SXM | 8 | FP8 | 38.3 | $3.49 |
| H200 | 4 | FP8 | 32.0 | $3.50 |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 4 | FP8 | 9.8 | $4.60 |
| L40S | 8 | FP8 | 7.0 | $5.04 |
| H100 PCIe | 8 | FP8 | 15.3 | $5.81 |
cards, precision and speed estimated from memory bandwidth and model size; cost recomputed by the site from verified prices · cheapest per output at the prices of Oct 4, 2026: MI300XWhy estimates, and their limits →
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