What are the hardware requirements for Yi Coder 9B?

Yi Coder 9B requires approximately 17.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Yi Coder 9B and how large is it?

Yi Coder 9B is developed by 01-ai, a model with 9b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Yi Coder 9B?

Yi Coder 9B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi Coder 9B by 01-ai — VRAM 17.7GB, 128K context

Name: Yi Coder 9B
Author: 01-ai

Yi Coder 9B is an open-source language model by 01-ai. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 17.7GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Arxiv:2403.04652 Codegen Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-Coder-9B

Yi Coder 9B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

open-source, code language model

Use Cases

Areas:

Coding

Additional Notes

Excels in long-context understanding with a maximum context length of 128K tokens.

Supported Languages

52 major programming languages ()

Input Output

Input Format:

Tokens for prompts

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

Generated code or text

LLM Name	Yi Coder 9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-Coder-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	17.7 GB
Updated	2026-10-12
Maintainer	01-ai
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.8 GB: 4-of-4
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Yi Coder 9B Chat	128K / 17.7 GB	9827	217
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CursorCore Yi 9B	128K / 17.7 GB	6	1
Yi Coder 9B Chat Instruct TIES	128K / 17.7 GB	30	0

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