What are the hardware requirements for Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B?

Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B requires approximately 6.1 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 Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B and how large is it?

Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B is developed by stabilityai, a model with 3b 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 Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B?

Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B by stabilityai — VRAM 6.1GB, 4K context

Name: Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B
Author: stabilityai

Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B is an open-source language model by stabilityai. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.1GB, Context: 4K, License: proprietary, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.09.

Arxiv:2104.09864 Code Codegen Endpoints compatible Gpt neox Instruct Model-index Pytorch Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablecode-instruct-alpha-3b

Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation, instruction-tuned

Use Cases

Areas:

Research

Primary Use Cases:

Generating new code completions

Limitations:

Model may not be used to create unlawful content or engage in high-risk activities

Additional Notes

Contact for questions: lm@stability.ai

Supported Languages

programming (Code)

Training Details

Methodology:

Instruction finetuned version with code instruction datasets

Context Length:

4096

Model Architecture:

Transformer decoder architecture with Parallel Attention and MLP residuals, LayerNorm biases, rotary position embeddings.

LLM Name	Stablecode Instruct Alpha 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablecode-instruct-alpha-3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	stabilityai
Model Type	gpt_neox
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	6.1 GB 6.1 GB 0.0 GB
Gated Model	Yes
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	GPTNeoXForCausalLM
License	proprietary
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.30.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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