What are the hardware requirements for OpenResearcher 30B A3B?

OpenResearcher 30B A3B requires approximately 63.2 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 OpenResearcher 30B A3B and how large is it?

OpenResearcher 30B A3B is developed by OpenResearcher, a model with 30b 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 OpenResearcher 30B A3B?

OpenResearcher 30B A3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

OpenResearcher 30B A3B by OpenResearcher — VRAM 63.2GB, 256K context

Name: OpenResearcher 30B A3B
Author: OpenResearcher

OpenResearcher 30B A3B is an open-source language model by OpenResearcher. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 63.2GB, Context: 256K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Arxiv:2603.20278 Base model:finetune:nvidia/nvi... Base model:nvidia/nvidia-nemot... Conversational Custom code Dataset:openresearcher/openres... Endpoints compatible Nemotron h Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/OpenResearcher/OpenResearcher-30B-A3B

OpenResearcher 30B A3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	OpenResearcher 30B A3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/OpenResearcher/OpenResearcher-30B-A3B
Base Model(s)	...otron 3 Nano 30B A3B Base BF16 nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-Base-BF16
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	63.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	OpenResearcher
Model Type	nemotron_h
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-13 5.0 GB: 2-of-13 5.0 GB: 3-of-13 5.0 GB: 4-of-13 5.0 GB: 5-of-13 5.0 GB: 6-of-13 5.0 GB: 7-of-13 5.0 GB: 8-of-13 5.0 GB: 9-of-13 5.0 GB: 10-of-13 5.0 GB: 11-of-13 5.0 GB: 12-of-13 3.2 GB: 13-of-13
Model Architecture	NemotronHForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.55.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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...on 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B NVFP4	1024K / 12.6 GB	19250	100
...30B A3B NVFP4 Global Pruned 15	1024K / 11 GB	148	19
...A Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B BF16	256K / 63.2 GB	1645889	752
... Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVFP4	256K / 19.3 GB	1568	8
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Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B	256K / 63.2 GB	88240	518
...IA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B FP8	256K / 32.7 GB	566152	356
... Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVFP4	256K / 19.3 GB	765499	174
...Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B	256K / 65.9 GB	474	4
....5 Lightning 30B A3B Base BF16	256K / 65.9 GB	336	12

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than OpenResearcher/OpenResearcher-30B-A3B.