Deploy and Host Deepseek-R1-8b on Railway

DeepSeek-R1-8B is DeepSeek’s open-weight reasoning model designed for long-form problem solving, reflective “chain-of-thought” style outputs, and efficient deployment for developer-driven use cases.

About Hosting Deepseek-R1-8b

Hosting Deepseek-R1-8b is possible on railway, however this model runs at a very low token per second rate as it is CPU bound. This template will be kept up to date for ideal optimization.

Important hosting information

Please keep these in mind if you are considering hosting Deepseek-R1-8b for yourself.

Any AI model requires a large amount of resources to run. Because of this, at the current moment Railway's hobby plan can not operate in a satisfactory manner. For optimal operation, we suggest the following:

• 8g volume storage.
• 13g of ram.
• 32v CPU.

(The above numbers provide slight padding in case models run high.)

Important pricing information

This model idle sits at roughly 2g of ram and 17v CPU. Under load it sees 32vCPU and 12g of ram. Your price per month of hosting Deepseek-R1-8b will range from $360-$760 per month of raw resource usage alone. If you plan on deploying Deepseek-R1-8b please be aware of the costs behind it.

Common Use Cases

• Completely private and secured AI model.

Dependencies for Deepseek-R1-8b Hosting

• 8g volume storage.
• 13g of ram.
• 32v CPU.

Deployment Dependencies

• 8g volume storage.
• 13g of ram.
• 32v CPU.

Why Deploy Deepseek-R1-8b on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Deepseek-R1-8b on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.