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Freepik/flux.1-lite-8B-alpha needs about 30.3 GB of GPU memory to draw images. It runs on one RTX A6000 from $0.48/h right now; best value: RTX 5090 at $0.71/h.
Weights
26 GB
GPU memory needed
about 30.3 GB
Memory · disk
39.5 GB · 69 GB
Architecture
FluxPipeline
Licence
other
Hardware and deploy
$0.71/h from your balance while it runs, billed by the hour; stop it from its page. GridPup rents the machine, which downloads the model from Hugging Face (usually ready in 10 to 15 minutes), and gives you an https address, keys and a Playground.
Questions
How much GPU memory does flux.1-lite-8B-alpha need?
About 30.3 GB to draw images: 26.27 GB of weights and the runtime's own memory.
What is the cheapest GPU to run flux.1-lite-8B-alpha?
Right now one RTX A6000 at $0.48 an hour; RTX 5090 at $0.71 an hour is the best value for its speed. Prices are live offers from GPU clouds, checked every 15 minutes.
Can flux.1-lite-8B-alpha run on an RTX 4090?
Not on one: it needs about 30.3 GB and an RTX 4090 has 24 GB. An RTX 5090 (32 GB) is enough.
How do I deploy flux.1-lite-8B-alpha as an API?
Pick a machine on its GridPup page and press Deploy: GridPup rents the GPU, downloads the model from Hugging Face and serves it at an https address with keys and OpenAI's image API, billed by the hour.
Prices are per hour for the whole machine and its disk, right now. Speed is Vast's DLPerf score of the machine, relative to the cheapest. Best value: the most speed per dollar. Only machines with a Vast reliability above 95% that download at 400 Mbit/s or more are offered: the machine fetches the model itself.