What are the hardware requirements for Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF?

Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF requires approximately 3.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF and how large is it?

Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF is developed by TheBloke, a model with 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 Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF?

Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF by TheBloke — VRAM 3.1GB

Name: Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF
Author: TheBloke

Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF is an open-source language model by TheBloke. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Arxiv:2305.18290 Base model:huggingfaceh4/zephy... Base model:quantized:huggingfa... Dataset:openbmb/ultrafeedback Dataset:stingning/ultrachat En Generated from trainer Gguf Mistral Quantized Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/zephyr-7B-alpha-GGUF

Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF Parameters and Internals

Model Type

GPT-like

Additional Notes

Zephyr-7B-α is a fine-tuned version of mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1 using DPO.

Supported Languages

en (Primarily)

Training Details

Data Sources:

stingning/ultrachat, openbmb/UltraFeedback

Methodology:

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)

Input Output

Input Format:

<|system|> ~~ <|user|> {prompt}~~ <|assistant|>

LLM Name	Zephyr 7B Alpha GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/zephyr-7B-alpha-GGUF
Model Name	Zephyr 7B Alpha
Model Creator	Hugging Face H4
Base Model(s)	Zephyr 7B Alpha HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-alpha
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	TheBloke
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	3.1 GB 3.8 GB 3.5 GB 3.2 GB 4.1 GB 4.4 GB 4.1 GB 5.0 GB 5.1 GB 5.0 GB 5.9 GB 7.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	AutoModel
License	mit

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