What are the hardware requirements for Causal Llm?

Causal Llm requires approximately 16.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Causal Llm and how large is it?

Causal Llm is developed by routellm, 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 Causal Llm?

Causal Llm is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Causal Llm by routellm — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Causal Llm
Author: routellm

Causal Llm is an open-source language model by routellm. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/routellm/causal_llm

Causal Llm Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Causal Llm
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/routellm/causal_llm
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	routellm
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.37.0.dev0
Vocabulary Size	128261
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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