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Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601: Specs, GPU requirements, hosting & deployment

Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601 is a recent General release in the Kanana family, certified from its immutable official source revision.

Technical deployment reference illustration for Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601
Reference deployment flow; exact architecture facts are listed separately.
Total parameters30.0B
Active parameters3.0B
Context window32,768 tokens
Release statusRecent · Recent
ArchitectureDeepseekV3ForCausalLM
ModalitiesText
LicenseKANANA License Agreement
Deployment stateDeployable with certified configuration
Commercial stateCommercial Use Allowed With Conditions
Release date2026-01-14

Architecture, strengths and use cases

Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601 is an official self-hostable Kakao release in the Kanana General track. It uses DeepseekV3ForCausalLM, carries 30B / 3B MoE, supports a verified context window of 32,768 tokens, and exposes only source-certified checkpoints and runtime combinations. Its release, license and deployment facts are tied to the official repository revision rather than inferred from the family name.

Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601 uses DeepseekV3ForCausalLM with 30B / 3B MoE. The stored architecture profile records 48 layers, hidden width 2048, 32 attention heads and a 32,768 token context ceiling where the official configuration publishes those fields.

Verified DeepseekV3ForCausalLM architecture
32,768 token certified context
Official BF16 checkpoint coverage
Private LLM inference
Agentic workflows
Long-context document processing

Certified checkpoints and quantizations

Only exact, source-certified variants attached to this release are shown.

kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct-2601

kakaocorp/kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct-2601

Official · BF16 · safetensors

Runtime certified: SGLang Transformers vLLM

Precision / quantizationFormatBitsPublisher trustDeployment state
BF16safetensors16OfficialRuntime certified

Recommended hardware

Use only the listed transformers, vllm, sglang runtime configuration with the exact checkpoint precision. The recommendation engine checks weight memory, KV cache, runtime overhead, safety headroom, GPU architecture and topology before ranking rentable and reference hardware.

Estimated weight memory57.56 GB
KV cache3 GB
Runtime overhead15.62 GB
Total with safety margin94.46 GB

Recommended best value

2× NVIDIA A100 SXM 80GB

160 GB total VRAM · nvlink

65.54 GB headroom · Available

USD 1,830 / month

Lowest-cost viable

4× NVIDIA L4 24GB

96 GB total VRAM · pcie

1.54 GB headroom · Available

USD 1,000 / month

Highest performance

2× NVIDIA A100 SXM 80GB

160 GB total VRAM · nvlink

65.54 GB headroom · Available

USD 1,830 / month

License and self-hosting considerations

The full 30B resident weight set must fit across the selected GPUs. Context and concurrency add KV-cache memory; MoE active parameters do not replace resident-weight memory.

Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601 is published under KANANA License Agreement. The release-scoped official license link and verification date are retained with the catalogue record.

Commercial Use Allowed With Conditions. Commercial use is conditional. Review the linked official terms before deployment.

Alternatives and sibling variants

Kanana 2 3B Instruct, Kanana 2 1.3B Instruct

Release timeline

kakao/kanana/kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct-2601

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 3499852c92f8b5ca7ce8c17862ff408ecac2013a150e086c7d115f439f6165ca

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601 require?

The exact estimate depends on checkpoint precision, context and concurrency; the page recommendation uses the certified memory engine and compatible runtime configurations.

Which runtimes support Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601?

Certified upstream runtime evidence is available for transformers, vllm, sglang.

Can Kanana 2 30B-A3B Instruct 2601 be used commercially?

The stored commercial classification is Commercial Use Allowed With Conditions. Consult the official KANANA License Agreement terms for the final obligations.

Official references

Last verified: 2026-08-26