What are the hardware requirements for Arco?

Arco requires approximately 1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Arco and how large is it?

Arco is developed by appvoid, a model with 513.6m 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 Arco?

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

Arco by appvoid — VRAM 1GB, 8K context

Name: Arco
Author: appvoid

Arco is an open-source language model by appvoid. Features: 513.6m LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14.

Merged Model Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/appvoid/arco

Arco Parameters and Internals

Training Details

Methodology:

Arco is a merge of multiple internal models fine-tuned on a diverse set of styles and finally merged with several models, including Palmer-004-turbo, followed by a merge with the base model to preserve knowledge.

Input Output

Input Format:

The following is a conversation between a super smart AI assistant and an user. user: assistant:

LLM Name	Arco
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/appvoid/arco
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	513.6m
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-07-07
Maintainer	appvoid
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.0 GB: 1-of-1
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

Rank the Arco capabilities

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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

Best Alternatives to Arco

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Acheron M	8K / 2 GB	6	0
Arco 2 Instruct	8K / 1 GB	14	0
Arco 2	8K / 1 GB	10	7
Arco Exp 12	8K / 1 GB	5	0
Arco 2.1	8K / 1 GB	5	0
Arco Chat V0.1	8K / 2 GB	5	0
Palmer 004 Turbo	8K / 1 GB	24	7

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than appvoid/arco.