What are the hardware requirements for SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ?

SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ requires approximately 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 SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ and how large is it?

SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 10.7b 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 SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ?

SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 6GB, 4K context

Name: SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ
Author: TheBloke

SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 10.7b LLM, VRAM: 6GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

4-bit Awq Base model:quantized:upstage/s... Base model:upstage/solar-10.7b... Conversational Instruct Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/SOLAR-10.7B-Instruct-v1.0-AWQ

SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

solar

Additional Notes

Built on the Llama2 architecture, SOLAR-10.7B incorporates the innovative Upstage Depth Up-Scaling and integrates Mistral 7B weights into the upscaled layers.

Input Output

Input Format:

### User: {prompt} ### Assistant:

LLM Name	SOLAR 10.7B Instruct V1.0 AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/SOLAR-10.7B-Instruct-v1.0-AWQ
Model Name	Solar 10.7B Instruct v1.0
Model Creator	upstage
Base Model(s)	upstage/SOLAR-10.7B-Instruct-v1.0 upstage/SOLAR-10.7B-Instruct-v1.0
Model Size	10.7b
Required VRAM	6 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	solar
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	6.0 GB
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.35.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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...auerkrautLM SOLAR Instruct AWQ	8K / 6 GB	5	2
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...krautLM UNA SOLAR Instruct AWQ	4K / 6 GB	4	1
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... 10.7B Instruct V1.0 128K EXL2	128K / 5.6 GB	5	1
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Eclectus1.1	4K / 21.4 GB	6	0
...B Instruct V1.0 Uncensored AWQ	4K / 6 GB	16	4
Solar 10.7B SLERP EXL2	4K / 5.6 GB	11	4

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/SOLAR-10.7B-Instruct-v1.0-AWQ.