What are the hardware requirements for Pleias RAG 1B?

Pleias RAG 1B requires approximately 2.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Pleias RAG 1B and how large is it?

Pleias RAG 1B is developed by PleIAs, a model with 1b 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 Pleias RAG 1B?

Pleias RAG 1B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Pleias RAG 1B by PleIAs — VRAM 2.4GB, 4K context

Name: Pleias RAG 1B
Author: PleIAs

Pleias RAG 1B is an open-source language model by PleIAs. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.4GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Arxiv:2504.18225 De En Endpoints compatible Es Fr It Llama Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/PleIAs/Pleias-RAG-1B

Pleias RAG 1B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Pleias RAG 1B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/PleIAs/Pleias-RAG-1B
Base Model(s)	PleIAs/Pleias-1.2B-Preview PleIAs/Pleias-1.2B-Preview
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	PleIAs
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.4 GB
Supported Languages	en fr it de es
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	65536
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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