What are the hardware requirements for Amaretto 8B?

Amaretto 8B requires approximately 17.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Amaretto 8B and how large is it?

Amaretto 8B is developed by AmarettoLabs, a model with 8b 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 Amaretto 8B?

Amaretto 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Amaretto 8B by AmarettoLabs — VRAM 17.8GB

Name: Amaretto 8B
Author: AmarettoLabs

Amaretto 8B is an open-source language model by AmarettoLabs. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.8GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

4bit Base model:mistralai/ministral... Base model:quantized:mistralai... Conversational Creative-writing En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Gguf Instruct Mistral3 Q4 Qlora Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Writing-assistant

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/AmarettoLabs/Amaretto-8B

Amaretto 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Amaretto 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/AmarettoLabs/Amaretto-8B
Model Name	unsloth/ministral-3-8b-instruct-2512-unsloth-bnb-4bit
Base Model(s)	Ministral 3 8B Instruct 2512 mistralai/Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-17
Maintainer	AmarettoLabs
Model Type	mistral3
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.2 GB 6.1 GB 7.0 GB 9.0 GB 5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 2.9 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	q4\|4bit\|gguf\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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