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Can I Run DeepSeek Locally? Hardware Requirements

Hardware needed to run DeepSeek-R1 and its distilled models locally, from 8B to the full 671B, with memory estimates.

Last updated21 Oct 2026
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The full DeepSeek-R1 is a 671B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 37B active parameters; it is far beyond a single consumer PC. The distilled versions (built on Llama and Qwen) run on ordinary hardware.

ModelParams (total / active)Est. memory, Q4 @ 8k ctxEst. memory, Q8 @ 8k ctxCheapest fit in our data (Q4)
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B8.03B / 8.03B7.0 GB10.6 GBGeForce RTX 5060 ($299, GPU launch MSRP)
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B14.8B / 14.8B11.5 GB18.2 GBGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB ($429, GPU launch MSRP)
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B32.8B / 32.8B22.5 GB37.3 GBGeForce RTX 3090 ($1,499, GPU launch MSRP)
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B70.6B / 70.6B46.8 GB78.7 GBGMKtec EVO-X2 (128GB / 1TB) ($3,499.99, system, listed price)
DeepSeek-R1 671B (MoE)671B / 37B412.6 GB715.4 GBNo single device in our dataset

Parameter counts: Hugging Face: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 model card. Memory figures are our estimates (see methodology), not measurements.

Model details: Hugging Face: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 model card.

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