What are the hardware requirements for Grug 3B?

Grug 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 Grug 3B and how large is it?

Grug 3B is developed by ProCreations, 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 Grug 3B?

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

Grug 3B by ProCreations — VRAM 8.4GB, 256K context

Name: Grug 3B
Author: ProCreations

Grug 3B is an open-source language model by ProCreations. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 8.4GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Adaptive-reasoning Base model:finetune:nanbeige/n... Base model:nanbeige/nanbeige4.... Conversational Custom code Dataset:procreations/grug-3b-t... En Grug Nanbeige Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Token-efficient Tool-use

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ProCreations/grug-3b

Grug 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Grug 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ProCreations/grug-3b
Base Model(s)	Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.2-3B Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.2-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	8.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	ProCreations
Model Type	nanbeige
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.4 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	NanbeigeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	166144

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Best Alternatives to Grug 3B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Nanbeige4.2 3B	256K / 8.4 GB	27892	613
... Nanbeige4.2 3B Claude Fable 5	256K / 8.4 GB	201	4
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

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ProCreations/grug-3b.