What are the hardware requirements for ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview?

ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview requires approximately 14 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview and how large is it?

ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview is developed by ALLaM-AI, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview perform on standard benchmarks?

ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1195. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview by ALLaM-AI — VRAM 14GB, 4K context

Name: ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview
Author: ALLaM-AI

ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview is an open-source language model by ALLaM-AI. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 14GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34, ELO: 1195.

Ar Autotrain compatible Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ALLaM-AI/ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview

ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1195 vs 1272 (so35) -6.1%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ALLaM-AI/ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	14 GB
Updated	2025-09-11
Maintainer	ALLaM-AI
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 4.0 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	ar en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.39.3
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the ALLaM 7B Instruct Preview

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
... 7B Instruct Preview Reasoning	3	104	14 GB

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