What are the hardware requirements for Thinker 1?

Thinker 1 requires approximately 8.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Thinker 1 and how large is it?

Thinker 1 is developed by aldigobbler, a model with 4b 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 Thinker 1?

Thinker 1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Thinker 1 by aldigobbler — VRAM 8.1GB, 256K context

Name: Thinker 1
Author: aldigobbler

Thinker 1 is an open-source language model by aldigobbler. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.1GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Arxiv:2505.09388 Conversational Dataset:aldigobbler/reasoner Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/aldigobbler/thinker-1

Thinker 1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Thinker 1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/aldigobbler/thinker-1
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	aldigobbler
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-3 4.0 GB: 2-of-3 0.1 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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

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Fable Traces	256K / 8.1 GB	5530	209
FastContext 1.0 4B SFT	256K / 8.1 GB	5735	357
Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507	256K / 8.1 GB	3109972	911
GRPO 4 70	256K / 8.1 GB	5	0
Lightning 4B	256K / 8.1 GB	13	6
FastContext 1.0 4B RL	256K / 8.1 GB	4559	61
Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507	256K / 8.1 GB	291023	606
Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 FP8	256K / 5.2 GB	1100744	78
Typhoon2.5 Qwen3 4B	256K / 8 GB	489877	6
Neuron 4B Instruct	256K / 8.1 GB	313	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than aldigobbler/thinker-1.