What are the hardware requirements for Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4?

Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4 requires approximately 1.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4 and how large is it?

Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4 is developed by tencent, a model with 1.8b 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 Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4?

Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4 by tencent — VRAM 1.3GB, 256K context

Name: Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4
Author: tencent

Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4 is an open-source language model by tencent. Features: 1.8b LLM, VRAM: 1.3GB, Context: 256K, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

4-bit Awq Base model:quantized:tencent/h... Base model:tencent/hunyuan-1.8... Conversational Endpoints compatible Hunyuan v1 dense Instruct Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hunyuan-1.8B-Instruct-AWQ-Int4

Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Hunyuan 1.8B Instruct AWQ Int4
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hunyuan-1.8B-Instruct-AWQ-Int4
Base Model(s)	tencent/Hunyuan-1.8B-Instruct tencent/Hunyuan-1.8B-Instruct
Model Size	1.8b
Required VRAM	1.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	tencent
Model Type	hunyuan_v1_dense
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.3 GB
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	HunYuanDenseV1ForCausalLM
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<｜hy_▁pad▁｜>
Vocabulary Size	120818
Torch Data Type	float16

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