What are the hardware requirements for Sailor2 8B Chat?

Sailor2 8B Chat requires approximately 17.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Sailor2 8B Chat and how large is it?

Sailor2 8B Chat is developed by sail, 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 Sailor2 8B Chat?

Sailor2 8B Chat is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Sailor2 8B Chat by sail — VRAM 17.1GB, 4K context

Name: Sailor2 8B Chat
Author: sail

Sailor2 8B Chat is an open-source language model by sail. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.1GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Arxiv:2502.12982 Base model:finetune:sail/sailo... Base model:sail/sailor2-8b Chat Conversational En Endpoints compatible Id Instruct Instruction Jv Km Lo Ms Multilingual My Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sailor Sea Sft Sharded Su Tensorflow Th Tl Vi Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/sail/Sailor2-8B-Chat

Sailor2 8B Chat Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Sailor2 8B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/sail/Sailor2-8B-Chat
Base Model(s)	Sailor2 8B sail/Sailor2-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	sail
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.3 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en zh id th vi ms lo my jv km su tl
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Sailor2 8B Chat

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Sailor2 8B Chat GGUF	3	95	3 GB

Best Alternatives to Sailor2 8B Chat

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Kepler 8B Instruct V2	32K / 15.4 GB	0	1
Sailor2 8B Chat Uncensored	32K / 17.1 GB	93	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than sail/Sailor2-8B-Chat.