What are the hardware requirements for L3.1 Orion A 8B?

L3.1 Orion A 8B requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed L3.1 Orion A 8B and how large is it?

L3.1 Orion A 8B is developed by mergekit-community, a model with 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 L3.1 Orion A 8B?

L3.1 Orion A 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

L3.1 Orion A 8B by mergekit-community — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: L3.1 Orion A 8B
Author: mergekit-community

L3.1 Orion A 8B is an open-source language model by mergekit-community. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Base model:casual-autopsy/l3-u... Base model:p0x0/epos-8b Base model:sao10k/l3-8b-lunari... Conversational Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mergekit-community/L3.1-Orion-a-8B

L3.1 Orion A 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	L3.1 Orion A 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mergekit-community/L3.1-Orion-a-8B
Base Model(s)	Epos 8B Casual-Autopsy/L3-Umbral-Mind-RP-v3.0-8B L3 8B Lunaris V1 L3 Boshima A P0x0/Epos-8b Casual-Autopsy/L3-Umbral-Mind-RP-v3.0-8B Sao10K/L3-8B-Lunaris-v1 mergekit-community/L3-Boshima-a
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	mergekit-community
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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