What are the hardware requirements for Lucy?

Lucy requires approximately 3.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Lucy and how large is it?

Lucy is developed by Menlo, 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 Lucy?

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

Lucy by Menlo — VRAM 3.4GB, 40K context

Name: Lucy
Author: Menlo

Lucy is an open-source language model by Menlo. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.4GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2508.00360 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-1.7b Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy

Lucy Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Lucy
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Menlo/Lucy
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	Menlo
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	3.4 GB 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Lucy

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Lucy 128K	128K / 3.4 GB	123	112
Polaris 1.7B Preview	128K / 3.4 GB	73	8
DictaLM 3.0 1.7B Instruct	60K / 3.4 GB	2842	1
Qwen3 1.7B	40K / 4 GB	5633291	500
RIFA FLASH 1.7B	40K / 3.4 GB	583	0
DualMind TKD Agentic 1.7B	40K / 3.4 GB	1798	0
Atomight V2.5 1.7B	40K / 3.4 GB	1406	1
Qwen3 1.7B Base MED ChatVector	40K / 3.4 GB	204	1
MedPsy 1.7B	40K / 4.1 GB	933	8
Jibay 2	40K / 4 GB	356	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Menlo/Lucy.