DeepSeek 7B on RTX 4060: Monthly Cost & Token Output
Dedicated RTX 4060 hosting for DeepSeek 7B (7B) inference — fixed monthly pricing with unlimited tokens.
The Cheapest Way to Run DeepSeek 7B
At £49/month, the RTX 4060 is GigaGPU’s most affordable dedicated server — and it runs DeepSeek 7B at a very respectable 55 tokens per second. Over a full month of continuous operation, that yields approximately 142.5 million tokens at an effective cost of just £0.34 per million.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| GPU | RTX 4060 (8 GB VRAM) |
| Model | DeepSeek 7B (7B parameters) |
| Monthly Server Cost | £49/mo |
| Tokens/Second | ~55.0 tok/s |
| Tokens/Day (24h) | ~4,752,000 |
| Tokens/Month | ~142,560,000 |
| Effective Cost per 1M Tokens | £0.3437 |
Pricing Comparison: Dedicated vs. API
DeepSeek’s own API and third-party providers charge per token. The table below shows how GigaGPU’s flat-rate model compares:
| Provider | Cost per 1M Tokens | GigaGPU Savings |
|---|---|---|
| GigaGPU (RTX 4060) | £0.3437 | — |
| Together.ai | $0.20 | Comparable |
| Fireworks | $0.20 | Comparable |
| DeepInfra | $0.13 | Comparable |
With APIs, a traffic spike doubles your bill overnight. With dedicated hardware, your monthly cost is fixed at £49 regardless of how hard you push the GPU.
Break-Even Point
Against DeepInfra at $0.13/1M tokens, you break even at roughly 376.9M tokens/month. For workloads above that threshold, every additional token is essentially free on your dedicated RTX 4060.
Even below break-even, a dedicated server gives you advantages no API can match: complete data privacy, zero rate limits, and the freedom to fine-tune or quantise however you see fit.
Setup & Optimisation
- Tight VRAM fit: DeepSeek 7B requires ~7 GB, leaving just 1 GB headroom on the 4060’s 8 GB. INT4 quantisation is recommended to free up space for KV cache.
- Throughput gains: Quantisation can boost throughput by 20–40% while maintaining strong output quality.
- Serving stack: Use vLLM or TGI for continuous batching and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
- Horizontal scaling: Add more RTX 4060 servers as demand grows. GigaGPU makes multi-node deployment straightforward.
Best Fit Workloads
- Budget-friendly chatbot prototypes and MVPs
- Internal document Q&A systems
- Automated summarisation for content teams
- Code generation and review assistance
- Batch data extraction from unstructured text
DeepSeek 7B From £49/Month
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