What are the hardware requirements for Chico 0.3B 20K?

Chico 0.3B 20K requires approximately 1.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 2K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Chico 0.3B 20K and how large is it?

Chico 0.3B 20K is developed by parasora, a model with 0.3b 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 Chico 0.3B 20K?

Chico 0.3B 20K is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Chico 0.3B 20K by parasora — VRAM 1.3GB, 2K context

Name: Chico 0.3B 20K
Author: parasora

Chico 0.3B 20K is an open-source language model by parasora. Features: 0.3b LLM, VRAM: 1.3GB, Context: 2K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/parasora/chico-0.3b-20k

Chico 0.3B 20K Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Chico 0.3B 20K
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/parasora/chico-0.3b-20k
Model Size	0.3b
Required VRAM	1.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	parasora
Model Type	llama
Model Files	1.3 GB 2.6 GB 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	2048
Model Max Length	2048
Transformers Version	4.39.1
Vocabulary Size	50570
Torch Data Type	float32

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Tinycodellama Jp 0.3B 20K	2K / 1.3 GB	6	0
Tinycodellama Jp 0.3B Test 10K	2K / 1.3 GB	6	1

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