What are the hardware requirements for Instella 3B Stage1?

Instella 3B Stage1 requires approximately 6.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Instella 3B Stage1 and how large is it?

Instella 3B Stage1 is developed by amd, a model with 3b 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 Instella 3B Stage1?

Instella 3B Stage1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Instella 3B Stage1 by amd — VRAM 6.2GB, 4K context

Name: Instella 3B Stage1
Author: amd

Instella 3B Stage1 is an open-source language model by amd. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.2GB, Context: 4K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2511.10628 Custom code Instella Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/amd/Instella-3B-Stage1

Instella 3B Stage1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Instella 3B Stage1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/amd/Instella-3B-Stage1
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	amd
Model Type	instella
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.2 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	InstellaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.48.0
Tokenizer Class	GPTNeoXTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|padding\|>
Vocabulary Size	50304
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Instella 3B Stage1

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Instella 3B Long Instruct	128K / 6.2 GB	18	5
Instella 3B Math	32K / 6.2 GB	23	7
Instella 3B Instruct	4K / 6.2 GB	261	59
Instella 3B	4K / 6.2 GB	151	42
Instella 3B SFT	4K / 6.2 GB	12	11

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than amd/Instella-3B-Stage1.