What are the hardware requirements for Apriel 5B Base?

Apriel 5B Base requires approximately 9.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Apriel 5B Base and how large is it?

Apriel 5B Base is developed by ServiceNow-AI, a model with 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 Apriel 5B Base?

Apriel 5B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Apriel 5B Base by ServiceNow-AI — VRAM 9.7GB, 16K context

Name: Apriel 5B Base
Author: ServiceNow-AI

Apriel 5B Base is an open-source language model by ServiceNow-AI. Features: 5b LLM, VRAM: 9.7GB, Context: 16K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Apriel Custom code En Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ServiceNow-AI/Apriel-5B-Base

Apriel 5B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Apriel 5B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ServiceNow-AI/Apriel-5B-Base
Model Size	5b
Required VRAM	9.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	ServiceNow-AI
Model Type	apriel
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 4.7 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	AprielForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.48.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Apriel 5B Base

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Apriel 5B Instruct	16K / 9.7 GB	2770	54

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