Use-case guide · Code assistant

Should you pick A4000 for code assistant?

A4000 has 16 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for code assistant depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

A4000 fits models up to ~11B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For code assistant specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for A4000 is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On code assistant workloads, A4000 typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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