What are the hardware requirements for Hunyuan 4B Instruct?

Hunyuan 4B Instruct requires approximately 8.5 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 4B Instruct and how large is it?

Hunyuan 4B Instruct is developed by tencent, a model with 4b 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 4B Instruct?

Hunyuan 4B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Hunyuan 4B Instruct by tencent — VRAM 8.5GB, 256K context

Name: Hunyuan 4B Instruct
Author: tencent

Hunyuan 4B Instruct is an open-source language model by tencent. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.5GB, Context: 256K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Base model:finetune:tencent/hu... Base model:tencent/hunyuan-4b-... Endpoints compatible Instruct Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hunyuan-4B-Instruct

Hunyuan 4B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Hunyuan 4B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hunyuan-4B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Hunyuan 4B Pretrain tencent/Hunyuan-4B-Pretrain
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	tencent
Model Type	hunyuan_v1_dense
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.5 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	HunYuanDenseV1ForCausalLM
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<｜hy_▁pad▁｜>
Vocabulary Size	120818
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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