What are the hardware requirements for Reader Lm 0.5B?

Reader Lm 0.5B requires approximately 1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 250K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Reader Lm 0.5B and how large is it?

Reader Lm 0.5B is developed by jinaai, a model with 0.5b 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 Reader Lm 0.5B?

Reader Lm 0.5B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Reader Lm 0.5B by jinaai — VRAM 1GB, 250K context

Name: Reader Lm 0.5B
Author: jinaai

Reader Lm 0.5B is an open-source language model by jinaai. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 250K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Conversational Deploy:azure Multilingual Qwen2 Region:eu Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/jinaai/reader-lm-0.5b

Reader Lm 0.5B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Training Details

Data Sources:

HTML content and corresponding Markdown content

Context Length:

256000

LLM Name	Reader Lm 0.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/jinaai/reader-lm-0.5b
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-06-03
Maintainer	jinaai
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	1.0 GB
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	256000
Model Max Length	256000
Transformers Version	4.43.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Reader Lm 0.5B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Reader Lm 0.5B GGUF	4	375	0 GB

Best Alternatives to Reader Lm 0.5B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Qwen2 0.5B	128K / 1 GB	1216780	169
Qwen2 0.5B Finetune Exp 1	128K / 1 GB	15	0
...0.5B FT EnhancedMUSREnsembleV3	128K / 1 GB	32	1
....5B FT V4 MUSR ENSEMBLE Mathis	128K / 2 GB	30	1
...0.5B FT MUSR ENSEMBLE V2Mathis	128K / 1 GB	25	0
...PRYMMAL 0.5B FT V4 MUSR Mathis	128K / 1 GB	62	1
Qwen2 0.5B Stf Imdb	128K / 1 GB	7	0
ECE PRYMMAL 0.5B FT V3 MUSR	128K / 2 GB	17	0
ECE PRYMMAL 0.5B FT V4 MUSR	128K / 2 GB	10	0
...44 45ee 44f3 934d Ddc8b6e082f1	128K / 1 GB	9	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than jinaai/reader-lm-0.5b.