What are the hardware requirements for Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked?

Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked requires approximately 3.4 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 Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked and how large is it?

Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked is developed by prism-ml, a model with 1.7b 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 Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked?

Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked by prism-ml — VRAM 3.4GB, 32K context

Name: Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked
Author: prism-ml

Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked is an open-source language model by prism-ml. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.4GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Bonsai Prismml Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-1.7B-unpacked

Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Bonsai 1.7B Unpacked
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-1.7B-unpacked
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	prism-ml
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	3.4 GB
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151669
Errors	replace

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