What are the hardware requirements for Elm?

Elm requires approximately 6.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Elm and how large is it?

Elm is developed by TinyPixel, a model with 3b 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 Elm?

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

Elm by TinyPixel — VRAM 6.8GB, 2K context

Name: Elm
Author: TinyPixel

Elm is an open-source language model by TinyPixel. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.8GB, Context: 2K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TinyPixel/elm

Elm Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Elm
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TinyPixel/elm
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	TinyPixel
Model Type	llama
Model Files	6.8 GB 6.8 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.34.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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

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Nanbeige4.1 3B	256K / 7.9 GB	20875	1161
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	149	50
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic Mxfp4	256K / 7.9 GB	34	2
Nanbeige4.1 3B Bf16	256K / 7.9 GB	47	3
...anbeige4.1 3B Heretic Bfloat16	256K / 7.9 GB	33	1
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	14	1
Nanbeige4.1 3B Heretic	256K / 7.9 GB	17	0
ISA 03 Mini 3B Hybrid Preview	256K / 6.5 GB	4	4
ToolMind Web 3B	192K / 7.9 GB	156	28
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	128K / 6.5 GB	1829572	2368

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TinyPixel/elm.