What are the hardware requirements for SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit?

SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit requires approximately 2.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit and how large is it?

SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit is developed by unsloth, a model with 3b 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 SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit?

SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit by unsloth — VRAM 2.4GB, 64K context

Name: SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit
Author: unsloth

SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 2.4GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/SmolLM3-3B-Base-unsloth-bnb-4bit

SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	SmolLM3 3B Base Unsloth Bnb 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/SmolLM3-3B-Base-unsloth-bnb-4bit
Base Model(s)	SmolLM3 3B Base HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	2.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-06
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	smollm3
Model Files	2.4 GB
Supported Languages	en fr es it pt zh ar ru
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	SmolLM3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.53.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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SmolLM3 3B 4bit	64K / 1.7 GB	3569	6
SmolLM3 3B 8bit	64K / 3.3 GB	46	9
SmolLM3 3B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	64K / 2.1 GB	42	3
SmolLM3 3B Base 4bit	64K / 1.7 GB	19	2
SmolLM3 3B 3bit	64K / 1.4 GB	13	2
SmolLM3 3B 128K	128K / 6.2 GB	14	1
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SmolLM3 3B Base	64K / 6.2 GB	158973	167

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/SmolLM3-3B-Base-unsloth-bnb-4bit.