What are the hardware requirements for Fanar 1 9B?

Fanar 1 9B requires approximately 18.6 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 Fanar 1 9B and how large is it?

Fanar 1 9B is developed by QCRI, a model with 9b 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 Fanar 1 9B?

Fanar 1 9B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Fanar 1 9B by QCRI — VRAM 18.6GB, 4K context

Name: Fanar 1 9B
Author: QCRI

Fanar 1 9B is an open-source language model by QCRI. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 18.6GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Merged Model Arxiv:2501.13944 Ar Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Gemma2 Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/QCRI/Fanar-1-9B

Fanar 1 9B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Fanar 1 9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/QCRI/Fanar-1-9B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	18.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	QCRI
Model Type	gemma2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 3.6 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	ar en
Model Architecture	Gemma2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.46.1
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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