What are the hardware requirements for Tercet Base?

Tercet Base requires approximately 1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Tercet Base and how large is it?

Tercet Base is developed by kerzgrr, a model with 501.6m 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 Tercet Base?

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

Tercet Base by kerzgrr — VRAM 1GB, 32K context

Name: Tercet Base
Author: kerzgrr

Tercet Base is an open-source language model by kerzgrr. Features: 501.6m LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Conversational Dataset:huggingfacefw/fineweb-... En Gated-deltanet Gqa Hybrid Pretrain Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Tercet Tiny gdn

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kerzgrr/Tercet-base

Tercet Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Tercet Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kerzgrr/Tercet-base
Model Name	Tercet-base
Model Size	501.6m
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-08-27
Maintainer	kerzgrr
Model Type	tiny_gdn
Model Files	1.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	TinyGDNForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.45.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|padding\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Tercet Base

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Tercet R 1.0	32K / 1 GB	588	1
Tercet R 1.1	32K / 1 GB	166	1
Tercet	32K / 1 GB	392	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than kerzgrr/Tercet-base.