What are the hardware requirements for Alpaca 7B Native 4bit?

Alpaca 7B Native 4bit requires approximately 4.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Alpaca 7B Native 4bit and how large is it?

Alpaca 7B Native 4bit is developed by 4bit, a model with 7b 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 Alpaca 7B Native 4bit?

Alpaca 7B Native 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Alpaca 7B Native 4bit by 4bit — VRAM 4.5GB

Name: Alpaca 7B Native 4bit
Author: 4bit

Alpaca 7B Native 4bit is an open-source language model by 4bit. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 4.5GB, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.06.

4bit Endpoints compatible Llama Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/4bit/alpaca-7b-native-4bit

Alpaca 7B Native 4bit Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

This model is a 4-bit quantization of the 'chavinlo/alpaca-native' model performed using the 'qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa' tool.

LLM Name	Alpaca 7B Native 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/4bit/alpaca-7b-native-4bit
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	4.5 GB
Updated	2026-09-20
Maintainer	4bit
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.5 GB 0.0 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	LLaMAForCausalLM
Model Max Length	512
Transformers Version	4.27.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32001
Torch Data Type	float32

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Best Alternatives to Alpaca 7B Native 4bit

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Llama 7B Onnx Merged Fp16	2K / GB	9	6
Alpaca Native 4bit	0K / 4.5 GB	6	58
Llama 7B 4bit Gr128	0K / 4 GB	11	4
Llama 7B 4bit Act	0K / 3.8 GB	11	2
Swallow 7B GPTQ	4K / 4.1 GB	5	1
Honest Llama2 Chat 7B	2K / 13.5 GB	212	9
Llama 7B Onnx Merged Fp32	2K / GB	12	1
Chatdoctor	0K / 27 GB	63	12
Explore LM 7B Math	0K / 27 GB	13	1
Explore LM Ext 7B Rewriting	0K / 27 GB	12	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than 4bit/alpaca-7b-native-4bit.