What are the hardware requirements for Tower Plus 72B?

Tower Plus 72B requires approximately 146 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Tower Plus 72B and how large is it?

Tower Plus 72B is developed by Unbabel, a model with 72b 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 Tower Plus 72B?

Tower Plus 72B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Tower Plus 72B by Unbabel — VRAM 146GB, 32K context

Name: Tower Plus 72B
Author: Unbabel

Tower Plus 72B is an open-source language model by Unbabel. Features: 72b LLM, VRAM: 146GB, Context: 32K, License: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2506.17080 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-72b Conversational Cs Da De En Endpoints compatible Es Fi Fr Hi Hu Is It Ja Ko Nl No Pl Pt Qwen2 Region:us Ro Ru Safetensors Sharded Sv Tensorflow Uk Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Unbabel/Tower-Plus-72B

Tower Plus 72B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Tower Plus 72B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Unbabel/Tower-Plus-72B
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B
Model Size	72b
Required VRAM	146 GB
Updated	2026-06-06
Maintainer	Unbabel
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	4.5 GB: 1-of-31 5.0 GB: 2-of-31 4.8 GB: 3-of-31 4.8 GB: 4-of-31 4.8 GB: 5-of-31 5.0 GB: 6-of-31 4.8 GB: 7-of-31 4.8 GB: 8-of-31 4.8 GB: 9-of-31 5.0 GB: 10-of-31 4.8 GB: 11-of-31 4.8 GB: 12-of-31 4.8 GB: 13-of-31 5.0 GB: 14-of-31 4.8 GB: 15-of-31 4.8 GB: 16-of-31 4.8 GB: 17-of-31 5.0 GB: 18-of-31 4.8 GB: 19-of-31 4.8 GB: 20-of-31 4.8 GB: 21-of-31 5.0 GB: 22-of-31 4.8 GB: 23-of-31 4.8 GB: 24-of-31 4.8 GB: 25-of-31 5.0 GB: 26-of-31 4.8 GB: 27-of-31 4.8 GB: 28-of-31 4.8 GB: 29-of-31 3.2 GB: 30-of-31 2.5 GB: 31-of-31
Supported Languages	de nl is es fr pt uk hi zh ru cs ko ja it en da pl hu sv no ro fi
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.51.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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...R10528DistillQwen 72B Preview3	195K / 146 GB	8	7
KAT Dev 72B Exp FP8	156K / 75.5 GB	13	6
Qwen2.5 72B	128K / 145.5 GB	13708	101
Ultiima 72B	128K / 146.1 GB	51	3
Homer V1.0 Qwen2.5 72B	128K / 146.1 GB	14	6
Ultiima 72B V1.5	128K / 146.1 GB	25	0
EVA Qwen2.5 72B V0.2	128K / 146 GB	159	22
Qwen2 72B	128K / 145.5 GB	18480	199
AceInstruct 72B	128K / 146 GB	88	18
...n2.5 72B 2x Instruct TIES V1.0	128K / 146.1 GB	55	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Unbabel/Tower-Plus-72B.