meta-llama / text-generation updated 2 years ago

Llama-2-13b-chat-hf

Name: Llama-2-13b-chat-hf
Author: meta-llama

Params

13.0 B

Context

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Downloads 30d

216 K

Likes

1,121

Commercial use: conditional · llama2 Gated — accept licence SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	f16	26.0 GB	31.1 GB	❌ Won’t fit

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub

~ · curl · api/v1

$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/llama-2-13b-chat-hf
{
  "hf_id": "meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-chat-hf",
  "params_b": 13.02,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "llama2", "commercial": "conditional" },
  "downloads_30d": 215883,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "f16", "gb": 31.1 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:07:53Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: LlamaForCausalLM
Parameters: 13.0 B
Tensor type: F16
Licence: llama2
First seen on the Hub: 2023-07-13
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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