What are the hardware requirements for HelpingAI2 9B?

HelpingAI2 9B requires approximately 17.8 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 HelpingAI2 9B and how large is it?

HelpingAI2 9B is developed by HelpingAI, a model with 9b 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 HelpingAI2 9B?

HelpingAI2 9B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

HelpingAI2 9B by HelpingAI — VRAM 17.8GB, 128K context

Name: HelpingAI2 9B
Author: HelpingAI

HelpingAI2 9B is an open-source language model by HelpingAI. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 17.8GB, Context: 128K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/HelpingAI/HelpingAI2-9B

HelpingAI2 9B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	HelpingAI2 9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/HelpingAI/HelpingAI2-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	17.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	HelpingAI
Model Type	llama
Model Files	6.2 GB 5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 2.9 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	q5\|gguf
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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HelpingAI2 9B	128K / 17.8 GB	128	23
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HelpingAI 9B	4K / 17.6 GB	80	25
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Yi 1.5 9B Chat GGUF	4K / 3.4 GB	360	2
HelpingAI 9B	4K / 17.6 GB	139	26
Yi 1.5 9B Chat IMat GGUF	4K / 2 GB	164	0
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than HelpingAI/HelpingAI2-9B.