What are the hardware requirements for H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat?

H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat requires approximately 8 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 H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat and how large is it?

H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat is developed by h2oai, a model with 4b 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 H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat?

H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat by h2oai — VRAM 8GB, 8K context

Name: H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat
Author: h2oai

H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat is an open-source language model by h2oai. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8GB, Context: 8K, License: proprietary, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Arxiv:2407.09276 Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Gpt H2o-llmstudio Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/h2oai/h2o-danube3.1-4b-chat

H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	H2o Danube3.1 4B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/h2oai/h2o-danube3.1-4b-chat
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8 GB
Updated	2026-05-08
Maintainer	h2oai
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.0 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Gated Model	Yes
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	proprietary
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.45.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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