What are the hardware requirements for BAR 2x7B Tool Use?

BAR 2x7B Tool Use requires approximately 23.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed BAR 2x7B Tool Use and how large is it?

BAR 2x7B Tool Use is developed by allenai, a model with 11.6b 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 BAR 2x7B Tool Use?

BAR 2x7B Tool Use is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

BAR 2x7B Tool Use by allenai — VRAM 23.3GB, 64K context

Name: BAR 2x7B Tool Use
Author: allenai

BAR 2x7B Tool Use is an open-source language model by allenai. Features: 11.6b LLM, VRAM: 23.3GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, MoE, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Bar Conversational Endpoints compatible Flex olmo Mixture-of-experts Moe Olmo Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/allenai/BAR-2x7B-Tool-Use

BAR 2x7B Tool Use Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	BAR 2x7B Tool Use
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/allenai/BAR-2x7B-Tool-Use
Model Size	11.6b
Required VRAM	23.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	allenai
Model Type	flex_olmo
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 5.0 GB: 3-of-5 5.0 GB: 4-of-5 3.4 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	FlexOlmoForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100278

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