What are the hardware requirements for Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails?

Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails requires approximately 1.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails and how large is it?

Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails is developed by FrontiersMind, a model with 600m 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 Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails?

Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails by FrontiersMind — VRAM 1.3GB, 2K context

Name: Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails
Author: FrontiersMind

Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails is an open-source language model by FrontiersMind. Features: 600m LLM, VRAM: 1.3GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Base model:finetune:frontiersm... Base model:frontiersmind/nandi... Conversational Custom code En Hi Nandi Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-600M-GuardRails

Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nandi Mini 600M GuardRails
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-600M-GuardRails
Base Model(s)	...ndi Mini 600M Early Checkpoint FrontiersMind/Nandi-Mini-600M-Early-Checkpoint
Model Size	600m
Required VRAM	1.3 GB
Updated	2026-06-28
Maintainer	FrontiersMind
Model Type	nandi
Model Files	1.3 GB
Supported Languages	en hi
Model Architecture	NandiForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	5.8.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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