What are the hardware requirements for Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1?

Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1 requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1 and how large is it?

Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1 is developed by gaparecido, a model with 8b 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 Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1?

Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1 by gaparecido — VRAM 16.1GB, 64K context

Name: Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1
Author: gaparecido

Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1 is an open-source language model by gaparecido. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Apertus Base model:finetune:swiss-ai/a... Base model:swiss-ai/apertus-8b... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Finance Financial-sentiment Instruct Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Trl Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/gaparecido/apertus-8b-financial-reasoner-v1

Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Apertus 8B Financial Reasoner V1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/gaparecido/apertus-8b-financial-reasoner-v1
Base Model(s)	swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-09-19
Maintainer	gaparecido
Model Type	apertus
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	ApertusForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.56.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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