What are the hardware requirements for Bonsai 8B Unpacked?

Bonsai 8B Unpacked requires approximately 16.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Bonsai 8B Unpacked and how large is it?

Bonsai 8B Unpacked is developed by prism-ml, 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 Bonsai 8B Unpacked?

Bonsai 8B Unpacked is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bonsai 8B Unpacked by prism-ml — VRAM 16.3GB, 64K context

Name: Bonsai 8B Unpacked
Author: prism-ml

Bonsai 8B Unpacked is an open-source language model by prism-ml. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.3GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Bonsai Prismml Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-unpacked

Bonsai 8B Unpacked Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Bonsai 8B Unpacked
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-unpacked
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	prism-ml
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.5 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151669
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Bonsai 8B Unpacked

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit	221	9396	1 GB

Best Alternatives to Bonsai 8B Unpacked

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
PaCoRe 8B	320K / 1.2 GB	54	48
RLVR 8B 0926	320K / 1.2 GB	63	8
...n3 8B 320K Context 10X Massive	320K / 16.4 GB	20	0
...r Of Horror Jan V1 256K Ctx 8B	256K / 16.1 GB	33	3
... BIG Jan Horror V1 256K Ctx 8B	256K / 16.1 GB	44	0
Qwen3 8B 256K Context 8X Grand	256K / 16.4 GB	95	0
...wen3 8B 192K Context 6X Larger	192K / 16.4 GB	55	0
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B	128K / 16.4 GB	1762293	1082
...Reason 8B Pretrain Competition	128K / 16.8 GB	244	0
Marco DeepResearch 8B	128K / 16.3 GB	520	27

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-unpacked.