What are the hardware requirements for Swallow 13B AWQ?

Swallow 13B AWQ requires approximately 7.5 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 Swallow 13B AWQ and how large is it?

Swallow 13B AWQ is developed by TheBloke, a model with 13b 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 Swallow 13B AWQ?

Swallow 13B AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Swallow 13B AWQ by TheBloke — VRAM 7.5GB, 4K context

Name: Swallow 13B AWQ
Author: TheBloke

Swallow 13B AWQ is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 7.5GB, Context: 4K, License: llama2, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

4-bit Awq Base model:quantized:tokyotech... Base model:tokyotech-llm/swall... En Ja Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Swallow-13B-AWQ

Swallow 13B AWQ Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Supported Languages

en (English), ja (Japanese)

Training Details

Data Sources:

Japanese Wikipedia, RefinedWeb, Swallow Corpus, The Pile

Context Length:

4096

Hardware Used:

Massed Compute's hardware

Model Architecture:

LLaMA-2

Input Output

Input Format:

{prompt}

Accepted Modalities:

text

LLM Name	Swallow 13B AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Swallow-13B-AWQ
Model Name	Swallow 13B
Model Creator	tokyotech-llm
Base Model(s)	Swallow 13B Hf tokyotech-llm/Swallow-13b-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	7.5 GB
Updated	2026-05-13
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	llama
Model Files	7.5 GB
Supported Languages	en ja
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama2
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.35.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	43176
Torch Data Type	float16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TheBloke/Swallow-13B-AWQ.