What are the hardware requirements for SimpleSD 4B Thinking?

SimpleSD 4B Thinking 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 SimpleSD 4B Thinking and how large is it?

SimpleSD 4B Thinking is developed by apple, 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 SimpleSD 4B Thinking?

SimpleSD 4B Thinking is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

SimpleSD 4B Thinking by apple — VRAM 8.1GB, 256K context

Name: SimpleSD 4B Thinking
Author: apple

SimpleSD 4B Thinking is an open-source language model by apple. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.1GB, Context: 256K, License: apple-amlr, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Arxiv:2604.01193 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-4b-think... Code-generation Conversational Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Self-distillation Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/apple/SimpleSD-4B-thinking

SimpleSD 4B Thinking Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	SimpleSD 4B Thinking
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/apple/SimpleSD-4B-thinking
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507 Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	apple
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	apple-amlr
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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GRPO 4 70	256K / 8.1 GB	10	0
FastContext 1.0 4B SFT	256K / 8.1 GB	5735	357
Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507	256K / 8.1 GB	3109972	911
Lightning 4B	256K / 8.1 GB	13	6
Fable Traces	256K / 8.1 GB	333	210
Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507	256K / 8.1 GB	291023	606
FastContext 1.0 4B RL	256K / 8.1 GB	4559	61
Qwen3 4B Sft Prm	256K / 17.6 GB	602	0
...fetensors.chatgpt GPT Codex V2	256K / 8.1 GB	666	2
Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 FP8	256K / 5.2 GB	1100744	78

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than apple/SimpleSD-4B-thinking.