What are the hardware requirements for Rost 1B Base?

Rost 1B Base requires approximately 2.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Rost 1B Base and how large is it?

Rost 1B Base is developed by rostlabs, a model with 1b 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 Rost 1B Base?

Rost 1B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Rost 1B Base by rostlabs — VRAM 2.8GB

Name: Rost 1B Base
Author: rostlabs

Rost 1B Base is an open-source language model by rostlabs. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.8GB, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Bilingual Conversational Custom code En Nanochat Region:us Ro Romanian Rost Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/rostlabs/rost-1b-base

Rost 1B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Rost 1B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/rostlabs/rost-1b-base
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-25
Maintainer	rostlabs
Model Type	rost
Model Files	2.8 GB 4.2 GB
Supported Languages	ro en
Model Architecture	RostForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Model Max Length	4096
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	32768
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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