What are the hardware requirements for Salamandra 7B?

Salamandra 7B requires approximately 15.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Salamandra 7B and how large is it?

Salamandra 7B is developed by BSC-LT, 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 Salamandra 7B?

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

Salamandra 7B by BSC-LT — VRAM 15.6GB, 8K context

Name: Salamandra 7B
Author: BSC-LT

Salamandra 7B is an open-source language model by BSC-LT. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 15.6GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/BSC-LT/salamandra-7b

Salamandra 7B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Salamandra 7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/BSC-LT/salamandra-7b
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	15.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-13
Maintainer	BSC-LT
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 3.5 GB: 3-of-4 2.1 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	bg ca code cs cy da de el en es et eu fi fr ga gl hr hu it lt lv mt nl nn oc pl pt ro ru sh sk sl sr sv uk
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.45.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	256000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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