What are the hardware requirements for Acaua Lite?

Acaua Lite requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Acaua Lite and how large is it?

Acaua Lite is developed by HarpiaIA, a model with 1.7b 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 Acaua Lite?

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

Acaua Lite by HarpiaIA — VRAM 3.5GB, 256K context

Name: Acaua Lite
Author: HarpiaIA

Acaua Lite is an open-source language model by HarpiaIA. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Agent Base model:finetune:liquidai/l... Base model:liquidai/lfm3-1.7b Code Coder Conversational Custom code Dataset:modotte/codex-7m-non-t... Dataset:orionllm/openagentinst... En Lfm Lfm3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/HarpiaIA/Acaua-Lite

Acaua Lite Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Acaua Lite
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/HarpiaIA/Acaua-Lite
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-11-03
Maintainer	HarpiaIA
Model Type	lfm3
Model Files	3.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Lfm3ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.22.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	128000

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Best Alternatives to Acaua Lite

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
LFM3 1.7B	256K / 3.5 GB	32933	624
LFM3 1.7B Base	256K / 3.5 GB	3152	93
LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16	256K / 3.5 GB	1385	11
LFM3 1.7B NVFP4	256K / 1.8 GB	1360	16
LFM3 1.7B ONNX	256K / GB	932	13
LFM3 1.7B FP8	256K / 2.2 GB	893	12
Cosmic Lightning	256K / 3.5 GB	168	9
...3 1.7B Claude Code Safetensors	256K / 3.5 GB	975	1
LFM3 1.7B Web ONNX	256K / GB	506	1
Athena	256K / 3.5 GB	139	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than HarpiaIA/Acaua-Lite.