What are the hardware requirements for Firefly V3?

Firefly V3 requires approximately 6.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Firefly V3 and how large is it?

Firefly V3 is developed by Guilherme34, a model with 3b 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 Firefly V3?

Firefly V3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Firefly V3 by Guilherme34 — VRAM 6.4GB, 128K context

Name: Firefly V3
Author: Guilherme34

Firefly V3 is an open-source language model by Guilherme34. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.4GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Merged Model Base model:finetune:guilherme3... Base model:guilherme34/firefly... Character-ai Conversational Creative-writing Endpoints compatible Finetuned Further-trained Guilherme34/firefly Llama Region:us Roleplay Safetensors Sharded Sicariussicariistuff/impish ll... Storytelling Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Guilherme34/Firefly-V3

Firefly V3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Firefly V3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Guilherme34/Firefly-V3
Base Model(s)	Guilherme34/Firefly-V2.5 Guilherme34/Firefly-V2.5
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	Guilherme34
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.4 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256

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