What are the hardware requirements for Needle3?

Needle3 requires a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Needle3 and how large is it?

Needle3 is developed by Cactus-Compute. 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 Needle3?

Needle3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Needle3 by Cactus-Compute — 8K context

Name: Needle3
Author: Cactus-Compute

Needle3 is an open-source language model by Cactus-Compute. Features: LLM, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.51.

Cactus-needle Edge Function-calling Needle On-device Quantization Region:us Tool-calling Webassembly

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Cactus-Compute/needle3

Needle3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Needle3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Cactus-Compute/needle3
Updated	2026-09-20
Maintainer	Cactus-Compute
Model Type	needle
Model Architecture	NeedleForToolCalling
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Vocabulary Size	8192

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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