What are the hardware requirements for Nanowhale 100M?

Nanowhale 100M requires approximately 0.4 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 Nanowhale 100M and how large is it?

Nanowhale 100M is developed by HuggingFaceTB, a model with 100m 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 Nanowhale 100M?

Nanowhale 100M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nanowhale 100M by HuggingFaceTB — VRAM 0.4GB, 2K context

Name: Nanowhale 100M
Author: HuggingFaceTB

Nanowhale 100M is an open-source language model by HuggingFaceTB. Features: 100m LLM, VRAM: 0.4GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Base model:finetune:huggingfac... Base model:huggingfacetb/nanow... Chat Conversational Custom code Dataset:huggingfacefw/fineweb-... Dataset:huggingfacetb/smol-smo... Deepseek Deepseek v4 En Endpoints compatible Moe Region:us Safetensors Sft

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/nanowhale-100m

Nanowhale 100M Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nanowhale 100M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/nanowhale-100m
Base Model(s)	Nanowhale 100M Base HuggingFaceTB/nanowhale-100m-base
Model Size	100m
Required VRAM	0.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	HuggingFaceTB
Model Type	deepseek_v4
Model Files	0.4 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	5.6.2
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	129280

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Best Alternatives to Nanowhale 100M

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Wader 100M Base	2K / 0.4 GB	337	0
Nanowhale 100M Base	2K / 0.4 GB	690	20

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than HuggingFaceTB/nanowhale-100m.