What are the hardware requirements for Shell 7B Chat?

Shell 7B Chat requires approximately 15.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Shell 7B Chat and how large is it?

Shell 7B Chat is developed by WisdomShell, 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 Shell 7B Chat?

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

Shell 7B Chat by WisdomShell — VRAM 15.3GB

Name: Shell 7B Chat
Author: WisdomShell

Shell 7B Chat is an open-source language model by WisdomShell. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 15.3GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Codeshell Custom code En Openbankai Pku-kcl Pytorch Region:us Sharded Shell Wisdomshell Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/WisdomShell/Shell-7B-Chat

Shell 7B Chat Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Shell 7B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/WisdomShell/Shell-7B-Chat
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	15.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-17
Maintainer	WisdomShell
Model Type	codeshell
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 0.6 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	zh en
Model Architecture	CodeShellForCausalLM
Transformers Version	4.36.2
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	70144
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Activation Function	gelu_pytorch_tanh
Errors	replace

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