What are the hardware requirements for Smol Llama 3.2 3B?

Smol Llama 3.2 3B requires approximately 7.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Smol Llama 3.2 3B and how large is it?

Smol Llama 3.2 3B is developed by bunnycore, 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 Smol Llama 3.2 3B?

Smol Llama 3.2 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Smol Llama 3.2 3B by bunnycore — VRAM 7.2GB, 128K context

Name: Smol Llama 3.2 3B
Author: bunnycore

Smol Llama 3.2 3B is an open-source language model by bunnycore. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 7.2GB, Context: 128K, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Merged Model Arxiv:2203.05482 Base model:bunnycore/llama-3.2... Base model:bunnycore/llama-3.2... Base model:huggingfacetb/finem... Base model:huihui-ai/llama-3.2... Base model:passing2961/thanos-... Base model:prithivmlmods/codep... Base model:prithivmlmods/llama... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/bunnycore/Smol-Llama-3.2-3B

Smol Llama 3.2 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Smol Llama 3.2 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/bunnycore/Smol-Llama-3.2-3B
Base Model(s)	Thanos 3B prithivMLmods/Llama-Sentient-3.2-3B-Instruct bunnycore/Llama-3.2-3B-RP-DeepThink bunnycore/Llama-3.2-3B-All-Mix huihui-ai/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-abliterated Codepy Deepthink 3B Finemath Ablation Infiwebmath passing2961/Thanos-3B prithivMLmods/Llama-Sentient-3.2-3B-Instruct bunnycore/Llama-3.2-3B-RP-DeepThink bunnycore/Llama-3.2-3B-All-Mix huihui-ai/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-abliterated prithivMLmods/Codepy-Deepthink-3B HuggingFaceTB/finemath-ablation-infiwebmath
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	7.2 GB
Updated	2026-05-16
Maintainer	bunnycore
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 2.2 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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