What are the hardware requirements for Alpaca 13B?

Alpaca 13B requires approximately 52.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Alpaca 13B and how large is it?

Alpaca 13B is developed by maicomputer, a model with 13b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Alpaca 13B perform on standard benchmarks?

Alpaca 13B has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1069. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Alpaca 13B by maicomputer — VRAM 52.1GB

Name: Alpaca 13B
Author: maicomputer

Alpaca 13B is an open-source language model by maicomputer. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 52.1GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17, ELO: 1069.

Endpoints compatible Llama Pytorch Region:us Sharded

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/maicomputer/alpaca-13b

Alpaca 13B Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1069 vs 1272 (so35) -16%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Alpaca 13B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Alpaca 13B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/maicomputer/alpaca-13b
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	52.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	maicomputer
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-6 9.9 GB: 2-of-6 9.9 GB: 3-of-6 9.9 GB: 4-of-6 9.9 GB: 5-of-6 2.5 GB: 6-of-6 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	LLaMAForCausalLM
Model Max Length	512
Transformers Version	4.27.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32001
Torch Data Type	float32

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