What are the hardware requirements for Saba1 1.8B?

Saba1 1.8B requires approximately 3.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Saba1 1.8B and how large is it?

Saba1 1.8B is developed by Sakalti, a model with 1.5b 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 Saba1 1.8B?

Saba1 1.8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Saba1 1.8B by Sakalti — VRAM 3.6GB, 128K context

Name: Saba1 1.8B
Author: Sakalti

Saba1 1.8B is an open-source language model by Sakalti. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Merged Model Arxiv:2306.01708 Base model:micaebe/qwen2.5-1.5... Base model:sakalti/model-4 Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Sakalti/Saba1-1.8B

Saba1 1.8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Saba1 1.8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Sakalti/Saba1-1.8B
Base Model(s)	micaebe/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-QwQ Model 4 micaebe/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-QwQ Sakalti/model-4
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	Sakalti
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.0 GB: 1-of-4 1.0 GB: 2-of-4 1.0 GB: 3-of-4 0.6 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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