What are the hardware requirements for Palmyra Mini?

Palmyra Mini requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Palmyra Mini and how large is it?

Palmyra Mini is developed by Writer, a model with 1.5b 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 Palmyra Mini?

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

Palmyra Mini by Writer — VRAM 3.5GB, 128K context

Name: Palmyra Mini
Author: Writer

Palmyra Mini is an open-source language model by Writer. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-1.5b Coder Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Math Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Writer/palmyra-mini

Palmyra Mini Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Palmyra Mini
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Writer/palmyra-mini
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	Writer
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	151665
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Palmyra Mini

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Qwen2.5 1.5B 1.3M Stretched	1280K / 3.1 GB	37	0
ReaderLM V2	500K / 3.1 GB	35356	804
Reader Lm 1.5B	250K / 3.1 GB	385	608
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B	128K / 3.5 GB	600051	1545
Ko R1 1.5B Preview	128K / 7.1 GB	8	9
Qwen2.5 1.5B	128K / 3.1 GB	863295	203
VibeThinker 1.5B	128K / 3.5 GB	3417	552
...FT Tulu3 Decontaminated Masked	128K / 3.1 GB	167	0
Seq Monkey Pretrain Base 1.5B	128K / 3.5 GB	37	0
Qwen2 1.5B	128K / 3.1 GB	195380	102

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Writer/palmyra-mini.