What are the hardware requirements for German R1?

German R1 requires approximately 6.2 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 German R1 and how large is it?

German R1 is developed by malteos, a model with 3b 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 German R1?

German R1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

German R1 by malteos — VRAM 6.2GB, 32K context

Name: German R1
Author: malteos

German R1 is an open-source language model by malteos. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.2GB, Context: 32K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-3b-ins... Conversational Dataset:opengpt-x/gsm8kx De Endpoints compatible Instruct Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/malteos/german-r1

German R1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	German R1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/malteos/german-r1
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.2 GB
Updated	2026-06-06
Maintainer	malteos
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	de
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.48.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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