What are the hardware requirements for LightOnOCR 3 0.8B?

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B requires approximately 1.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LightOnOCR 3 0.8B and how large is it?

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B is developed by lightonai, a model with 0.8b 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 LightOnOCR 3 0.8B?

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B by lightonai — VRAM 1.7GB

Name: LightOnOCR 3 0.8B
Author: lightonai

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B is an open-source language model by lightonai. Features: 0.8b LLM, VRAM: 1.7GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.42.

Arxiv:2412.13663 Arxiv:2601.14251 Conversational Document-understanding En Endpoints compatible Eval-results Forms Image-text-to-text Ocr Pdf Qwen3 5 Region:eu Safetensors Tables Vision Vision-language Visual-grounding

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LightOnOCR 3 0.8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B
Model Size	0.8b
Required VRAM	1.7 GB
Updated	2026-10-11
Maintainer	lightonai
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	1.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.5.4
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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