What are the hardware requirements for Cipher 20B?

Cipher 20B requires approximately 41.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Cipher 20B and how large is it?

Cipher 20B is developed by HelpingAI, a model with 20b 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 Cipher 20B?

Cipher 20B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Cipher 20B by HelpingAI — VRAM 41.4GB, 32K context

Name: Cipher 20B
Author: HelpingAI

Cipher 20B is an open-source language model by HelpingAI. Features: 20b LLM, VRAM: 41.4GB, Context: 32K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Ai assistant Cipher Code generation Codegen Conversational En Endpoints compatible Helpingai Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/HelpingAI/Cipher-20B

Cipher 20B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Cipher 20B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/HelpingAI/Cipher-20B
Model Size	20b
Required VRAM	41.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	HelpingAI
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-9 5.0 GB: 2-of-9 5.0 GB: 3-of-9 5.0 GB: 4-of-9 5.0 GB: 5-of-9 5.0 GB: 6-of-9 5.0 GB: 7-of-9 4.8 GB: 8-of-9 1.6 GB: 9-of-9
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|PAD_TOKEN\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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