What are the hardware requirements for Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B?

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B requires approximately 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 Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B and how large is it?

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B is developed by stabilityai, a model with 6b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B perform on standard benchmarks?

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B has the following published scores: MMLU 42.03. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B by stabilityai — VRAM 1GB, 4K context

Name: Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B
Author: stabilityai

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B is an open-source language model by stabilityai. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 4K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19, Arc: 43.7, HellaSwag: 69.3, MMLU: 42, GSM8K: 35.3.

Arxiv:2305.18290 Conversational Dataset:allenai/ultrafeedback ... Dataset:hkust-nlp/deita-10k-v0 Dataset:huggingfaceh4/ultracha... Dataset:intel/orca dpo pairs Dataset:ldjnr/capybara Dataset:meta-math/metamathqa Dataset:openchat/openchat shar... Dataset:wizardlm/wizardlm evol... En Endpoints compatible Gguf Instruct Q4 Quantized Region:us Safetensors Stablelm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6b
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b
Base Model(s)	Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6b Xenova/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	stabilityai
Model Type	stablelm
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.3 GB 1.1 GB 1.0 GB 1.1 GB 1.2 GB 1.8 GB 3.3 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q4\|q5_k
Model Architecture	StableLmForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.38.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2TokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	float16

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Quantized Models of the Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B

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Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1.6B GGUF	15	721	0 GB

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