What are the hardware requirements for Ares 4B?

Ares 4B requires approximately 8.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Ares 4B and how large is it?

Ares 4B is developed by Spestly, a model with 4b 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 Ares 4B?

Ares 4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ares 4B by Spestly — VRAM 8.1GB, 40K context

Name: Ares 4B
Author: Spestly

Ares 4B is an open-source language model by Spestly. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.1GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Autotrain compatible Base model:finetune:menlo/jan-... Base model:menlo/jan-nano Conversational En Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Spestly/Ares-4B

Ares 4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ares 4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Spestly/Ares-4B
Base Model(s)	Jan Nano Menlo/Jan-nano
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.1 GB
Updated	2025-07-06
Maintainer	Spestly
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.1 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float16
Errors	replace

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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FastContext 1.0 4B SFT	256K / 8.1 GB	5735	357
Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507	256K / 8.1 GB	3109972	911
GRPO 4 70	256K / 8.1 GB	15	0
...2.5 Flash Lite Preview Distill	256K / 8.1 GB	31	1
Lightning 4B	256K / 8.1 GB	13	6
Fable Traces	256K / 8.1 GB	385	210
Checkpoint 8000	256K / 8.1 GB	1453	0
Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507	256K / 8.1 GB	291023	606
FastContext 1.0 4B RL	256K / 8.1 GB	4559	61
Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 FP8	256K / 5.2 GB	1100744	78

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Spestly/Ares-4B.