What are the hardware requirements for Llama 13B?

Llama 13B requires approximately 42 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 13B and how large is it?

Llama 13B is developed by circulus, a model with 13b 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 Llama 13B?

Llama 13B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 13B by circulus — VRAM 42GB

Name: Llama 13B
Author: circulus

Llama 13B is an open-source language model by circulus. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 42GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.06.

Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/circulus/llama-13b

Llama 13B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 13B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/circulus/llama-13b
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	42 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	circulus
Model Type	llama
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Model Architecture	LLaMAForCausalLM
Transformers Version	4.27.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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Best Alternatives to Llama 13B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Llm Jp 13B V2.0	4K / 27.4 GB	16	15
Alpaca 13B	0K / 52.1 GB	73	108
Decapoda Research Llama 13B	0K / 41 GB	10	0
LIMA 13B	0K / 42 GB	78	1
Alpaca 13B	0K / 52.1 GB	426	109
Llama 13B	0K / 42 GB	96	1
Vicuna2	0K / 0 GB	9	16
Vicuna2	0K / 0 GB	5	16
... X Alpaca 13B Native 4bit 128g	0K / 7.9 GB	106	727
... X Alpaca 13B Native 4bit 128g	0K / 8.1 GB	10	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than circulus/llama-13b.