What are the hardware requirements for Stablelm Zephyr 3B?

Stablelm Zephyr 3B requires approximately 5.6 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 Zephyr 3B and how large is it?

Stablelm Zephyr 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.

How does Stablelm Zephyr 3B perform on standard benchmarks?

Stablelm Zephyr 3B has the following published scores: MMLU 46.17. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Stablelm Zephyr 3B by stabilityai — VRAM 5.6GB, 4K context

Name: Stablelm Zephyr 3B
Author: stabilityai

Stablelm Zephyr 3B is an open-source language model by stabilityai. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 5.6GB, Context: 4K, License: other, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21, Arc: 46.1, HellaSwag: 74.2, MMLU: 46.2, GSM8K: 42.2.

Arxiv:2305.18290 Arxiv:2306.05685 Conversational Dataset:huggingfaceh4/ultracha... Dataset:huggingfaceh4/ultrafee... Dataset:intel/orca dpo pairs Dataset:meta-math/metamathqa Dataset:wizardlm/wizardlm evol... En Endpoints compatible Instruct Model-index Region:us Safetensors Stablelm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b

Stablelm Zephyr 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Stablelm Zephyr 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	5.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-22
Maintainer	stabilityai
Model Type	stablelm
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.6 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	StableLmForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.38.0
Tokenizer Class	GPTNeoXTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	50304
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Stablelm Zephyr 3B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Stablelm Zephyr 3B GGUF	101	1798	1 GB
Stablelm Zephyr 3B GPTQ	12	10	1 GB

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