What are the hardware requirements for Hemlock Jan Code 4B?

Hemlock Jan Code 4B requires approximately 8.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Hemlock Jan Code 4B and how large is it?

Hemlock Jan Code 4B is developed by nbeerbower, a model with 4b 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 Hemlock Jan Code 4B?

Hemlock Jan Code 4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hemlock Jan Code 4B by nbeerbower — VRAM 8.8GB, 256K context

Name: Hemlock Jan Code 4B
Author: nbeerbower

Hemlock Jan Code 4B is an open-source language model by nbeerbower. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.8GB, Context: 256K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Base model:finetune:janhq/jan-... Base model:janhq/jan-code-4b Conversational Dataset:hemlang/hemlock-sft Endpoints compatible Grimoire Merlina Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sft

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/Hemlock-Jan-code-4B

Hemlock Jan Code 4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Hemlock Jan Code 4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/Hemlock-Jan-code-4B
Base Model(s)	Jan Code 4B janhq/Jan-code-4b
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-20
Maintainer	nbeerbower
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	8.8 GB
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.2.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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