What are the hardware requirements for OpenELM 3B?

OpenELM 3B requires approximately 6.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed OpenELM 3B and how large is it?

OpenELM 3B is developed by mlx-community, 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 OpenELM 3B?

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

OpenELM 3B by mlx-community — VRAM 6.1GB

Name: OpenELM 3B
Author: mlx-community

OpenELM 3B is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.1GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Custom code Openelm Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/OpenELM-3B

OpenELM 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	OpenELM 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/OpenELM-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	openelm
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-2 0.8 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	OpenELMForCausalLM
Transformers Version	4.39.3
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float32

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Best Alternatives to OpenELM 3B

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OpenELM 3B Instruct	0K / 6 GB	439	338
OpenELM 3B	0K / 12.2 GB	317	130

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