What are the hardware requirements for Panda Coder 13B?

Panda Coder 13B requires approximately 26 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Panda Coder 13B and how large is it?

Panda Coder 13B is developed by aiplanet, a model with 13b 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 Panda Coder 13B?

Panda Coder 13B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Panda Coder 13B by aiplanet — VRAM 26GB, 16K context

Name: Panda Coder 13B
Author: aiplanet

Panda Coder 13B is an open-source language model by aiplanet. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 26GB, Context: 16K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Base model:codellama/codellama... Base model:finetune:codellama/... Codegen Conversational Dataset:nickrosh/evol-instruct... Dataset:tokenbender/code instr... En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/aiplanet/panda-coder-13B

Panda Coder 13B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, code generation

Use Cases

Areas:

research, commercial applications

Additional Notes

Panda Coder is tailored to transform natural language instructions into code.

Supported Languages

en (native)

Training Details

Data Sources:

TokenBender/code_instructions_122k_alpaca_style, nickrosh/Evol-Instruct-Code-80k-v1

Input Output

Input Format:

textual instructions in NLP format

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

code

LLM Name	Panda Coder 13B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/aiplanet/panda-coder-13B
Base Model(s)	CodeLlama 13B Instruct Hf codellama/CodeLlama-13b-Instruct-hf
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	26 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	aiplanet
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-6 5.0 GB: 2-of-6 5.0 GB: 3-of-6 4.9 GB: 4-of-6 4.9 GB: 5-of-6 1.2 GB: 6-of-6
Supported Languages	en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.38.2
Tokenizer Class	CodeLlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	32016
Torch Data Type	float16

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

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NexusRaven V2 13B	16K / 26 GB	105	472
CodeLlama 13B Instruct Hf	16K / 26 GB	2469	160
CodeLlama 13B MORepair	16K / 26 GB	9	2
CodeLlama 13B Instruct Hf	16K / 26 GB	369	29
TableLLM 13B	16K / 26 GB	98	34
NexusRaven 13B	16K / 26 GB	37	106
... Llama 2 13B Instruct Text2sql	16K / 26 GB	8	28
Gen Sim	16K / 0.3 GB	4	3
CodeLlama 13B Instruct Fp16	16K / 26 GB	137	28
...Llama 13B Instruct Hf 4bit MLX	16K / 7.8 GB	113	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than aiplanet/panda-coder-13B.