What are the hardware requirements for Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct?

Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct requires approximately 4.2 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 Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct and how large is it?

Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct is developed by kakaocorp, a model with 2.1b 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 Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct?

Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct by kakaocorp — VRAM 4.2GB, 8K context

Name: Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct
Author: kakaocorp

Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct is an open-source language model by kakaocorp. Features: 2.1b LLM, VRAM: 4.2GB, Context: 8K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2502.18934 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Ko Llama Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kakaocorp/kanana-nano-2.1b-instruct

Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kanana Nano 2.1B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kakaocorp/kanana-nano-2.1b-instruct
Model Size	2.1b
Required VRAM	4.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	kakaocorp
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.2 GB
Supported Languages	en ko
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.46.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Kanana 1.5 2.1B Instruct 2505	32K / 4.6 GB	5371	37
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...Nano 2.1B Instruct Abliterated	8K / 8.4 GB	10	4

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