What are the hardware requirements for Tucano 160M?

Tucano 160M requires approximately 0.3 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 Tucano 160M and how large is it?

Tucano 160M is developed by TucanoBR, a model with 160m 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 Tucano 160M?

Tucano 160M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Tucano 160M by TucanoBR — VRAM 0.3GB, 2K context

Name: Tucano 160M
Author: TucanoBR

Tucano 160M is an open-source language model by TucanoBR. Features: 160m LLM, VRAM: 0.3GB, Context: 2K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/TucanoBR/Tucano-160m

Tucano 160M Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Tucano 160M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/TucanoBR/Tucano-160m
Model Size	160m
Required VRAM	0.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	TucanoBR
Model Type	llama
Model Files	0.3 GB 0.7 GB
Supported Languages	pt
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.44.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Doctor Llama 160M	2K / 0 GB	5	0
Vicuna 160M	2K / 0.7 GB	28	2
TeenyTinyLlama 160M	2K / 0.7 GB	77	8
Onnx Llama 160M Chat V1	2K / GB	4	1
Spider Llama 160M	2K / 0.7 GB	6	0
Llama 160M Base	2K / 0 GB	5	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than TucanoBR/Tucano-160m.