OLMo 3 7B.
Allen AI's latest fully-open OLMo — model + training data + checkpoints.
1× Nvidia P102-100.
Most-aggressive quantisation we have a working recommendation for. Lower precision = less VRAM = cheaper hardware, at a small accuracy cost.
Cheapest hosted endpoints.
| Provider | Access | $/M in | $/M out | |
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| Ollama | self hosted | — | — | Launch ↗ |
Smaller models distilled from OLMo 3 7B.
Lightweight student models trained to mimic OLMo 3 7B's outputs.
Frequently asked.
How do I run OLMo 3 7B?
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How much does it cost to run OLMo 3 7B?
Is OLMo 3 7B open-source or proprietary?
Cheapest hardware per quantisation.
Each row is one quantisation tier (the same weights compressed differently). Lower precision → lower VRAM → cheaper hardware, at the cost of small accuracy loss. $/hr refreshed hourly from each provider's API.
| Quantisation | Cheapest GPU config | Total VRAM | Live $/hr | tokens/sec | |
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FP16
FP16 — half precision (default)
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20 GB | $0.17/hr | — | Compare → | |
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FP8
FP8 — 8-bit float (Hopper / Blackwell)
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10 GB | — | — | Compare → | |
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INT4
INT4 — 4-bit integer (~4× VRAM saving)
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5 GB | — | — | Compare → |
What it costs per month across providers.
Estimate your monthly bill for OLMo 3 7B across every host that publishes per-token pricing. Slide your token volumes; the chart + table re-rank cheapest-first.
No priced API access rows on file for OLMo 3 7B yet.
Rent the GPU instead of paying per token.
For an open-weights model like OLMo 3 7B, you can rent a GPU and serve inference yourself. The math: cheapest GPU rental × 730 hours/month + your electricity rate × power draw.
Assumes the GPU runs 24/7 at ~85% utilisation. If your traffic is bursty, you'll pay less for the API and probably more for the GPU (idle hours still cost rental). The breakeven analysis lives on the Self-host vs API breakeven tool.
About OLMo 3 7B.
OLMo 3 7B is the most-documented fully-open LLM family — Allen AI releases the model weights, the training data, the training code, and intermediate checkpoints. Apache-2.0. Best resource for academic research on LLM training dynamics.