What are the hardware requirements for Virtuoso Lite?

Virtuoso Lite requires approximately 20.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Virtuoso Lite and how large is it?

Virtuoso Lite is developed by arcee-ai, a model with 10b 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 Virtuoso Lite?

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

Virtuoso Lite by arcee-ai — VRAM 20.5GB, 32K context

Name: Virtuoso Lite
Author: arcee-ai

Virtuoso Lite is an open-source language model by arcee-ai. Features: 10b LLM, VRAM: 20.5GB, Context: 32K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Base model:finetune:tiiuae/fal... Base model:tiiuae/falcon3-10b-... Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Merge Mergekit Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Virtuoso-Lite

Virtuoso Lite Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Virtuoso Lite
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Virtuoso-Lite
Base Model(s)	Falcon3 10B Base tiiuae/Falcon3-10B-Base
Model Size	10b
Required VRAM	20.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-17
Maintainer	arcee-ai
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 0.9 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.47.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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...enbuddy Falcon3 10B V24.2 131K	128K / 20.7 GB	6	0
Priya 10B	128K / 20.5 GB	11	2
HelpingAI2.5 10B	128K / 20.5 GB	66	2
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HELVETE X	128K / 20.5 GB	104	11
HelpingAI2.5 10B	128K / 20.5 GB	9	8
Yarn Solar 10B 64K	64K / 21.4 GB	150	16
StoryTeller 10B 2e V2	58K / 21.4 GB	5	1
Falcon3 10B Instruct	32K / 20.5 GB	7371	117
Falcon3 10B Tensopolis V2	32K / 20.5 GB	8	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than arcee-ai/Virtuoso-Lite.