What are the hardware requirements for Nanbeige4.2 3B?

Nanbeige4.2 3B requires approximately 8.4 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 Nanbeige4.2 3B and how large is it?

Nanbeige4.2 3B is developed by Nanbeige, a model with 3b 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 Nanbeige4.2 3B?

Nanbeige4.2 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nanbeige4.2 3B by Nanbeige — VRAM 8.4GB, 256K context

Name: Nanbeige4.2 3B
Author: Nanbeige

Nanbeige4.2 3B is an open-source language model by Nanbeige. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 8.4GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.44.

Arxiv:2607.22083 Base model:finetune:nanbeige/n... Base model:nanbeige/nanbeige4.... Conversational Custom code En Eval-results Nanbeige Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.2-3B

Nanbeige4.2 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nanbeige4.2 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.2-3B
Base Model(s)	Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.2-3B-Base Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.2-3B-Base
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	8.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	Nanbeige
Model Type	nanbeige
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.4 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	NanbeigeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.42.4
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	166144
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Nanbeige4.2 3B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Nanbeige4.2 3B Mlx 8bit	4	1253	4 GB
Nanbeige4.2 3B OptiQ 4bit	2	492	3 GB
Nanbeige4.2 3B GPTQ Int8	3	20	5 GB

Best Alternatives to Nanbeige4.2 3B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Nanbeige4.2 3B CE V1.0	256K / 8.4 GB	238	0
... Nanbeige4.2 3B Claude Fable 5	256K / 8.4 GB	167	4
Grug 3B	256K / 8.4 GB	79	3
Nanbeige4.2 3B FP8	256K / 5.2 GB	22	6
Nanbeige4.2 3B ARA Heresy	256K / 8.4 GB	29	0
Nanbeige4.2 3B Base	128K / 8.3 GB	0	29
Nanbeige4.2 3B Mlx 8bit	256K / 4.4 GB	1253	4
Nanbeige4.2 3B OptiQ 4bit	256K / 3.3 GB	492	2
Nanbeige4.2 3B GPTQ Int8	256K / 5.2 GB	20	3