What are the hardware requirements for Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth?

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth requires approximately 197.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth and how large is it?

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth is developed by unsloth, a model with 17b 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 Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth?

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth by unsloth — VRAM 197.5GB

Name: Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth
Author: unsloth

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 17b LLM, VRAM: 197.5GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-unsloth

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-unsloth
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E
Model Size	17b
Required VRAM	197.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama4
Model Files	3.9 GB: 1-of-50 4.4 GB: 2-of-50 4.4 GB: 3-of-50 4.4 GB: 4-of-50 4.4 GB: 5-of-50 4.4 GB: 6-of-50 4.4 GB: 7-of-50 4.4 GB: 8-of-50 4.4 GB: 9-of-50 4.4 GB: 10-of-50 4.4 GB: 11-of-50 4.4 GB: 12-of-50 4.4 GB: 13-of-50 4.4 GB: 14-of-50 4.4 GB: 15-of-50 4.4 GB: 16-of-50 4.4 GB: 17-of-50 4.4 GB: 18-of-50 4.4 GB: 19-of-50 4.4 GB: 20-of-50 4.4 GB: 21-of-50 4.4 GB: 22-of-50 4.4 GB: 23-of-50 4.4 GB: 24-of-50 4.4 GB: 25-of-50 4.4 GB: 26-of-50 4.4 GB: 27-of-50 4.4 GB: 28-of-50 4.4 GB: 29-of-50 4.4 GB: 30-of-50 4.4 GB: 31-of-50 4.4 GB: 32-of-50 4.4 GB: 33-of-50 4.4 GB: 34-of-50 4.4 GB: 35-of-50 4.4 GB: 36-of-50 4.4 GB: 37-of-50 4.4 GB: 38-of-50 4.4 GB: 39-of-50 4.4 GB: 40-of-50 4.4 GB: 41-of-50 4.4 GB: 42-of-50 4.4 GB: 43-of-50 4.4 GB: 44-of-50 4.4 GB: 45-of-50
Supported Languages	ar de en es fr hi id it pt th tl vi
Model Architecture	Llama4ForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Unsloth

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct	0K / 188.7 GB	3586	57
...a 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct	0K / 631.8 GB	3508	8
...ama Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Bf16	0K / 207.3 GB	790	2
...Maverick 17B 128E Instruct FP8	0K / 210 GB	729	6
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E	0K / 193.1 GB	130	3
...Scout 17B 16E Instruct Unsloth	0K / 197.5 GB	23	17
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E	0K / 664 GB	44	6
...Maverick 17B 16E Instruct 4bit	0K / 146.3 GB	419	7
... 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct 6bit	0K / 88.8 GB	333	5
...averick 17B 128E Instruct 6bit	0K / 201.1 GB	125	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-unsloth.