What GPU do I need to run allenai/OLMo-1B-hf?
1.2B parameters, published in F32. View on Hugging Face
OLMo-1B-hf is published by allenai on Hugging Face, with 51,542 downloads and 29 likes to date. It's a OlmoForCausalLM model built for text-generation, published natively in F32.
VRAM required & cheapest live GPU fit
Required VRAM = weight size at each precision, plus a fixed overhead for KV-cache, activations, and fragmentation. Full formula and assumptions: methodology.
A GPU is only matched to a row if its hardware supports that precision, and the primary recommendation is always a single-GPU fit when one exists.
INT4 caveat: requires a quantized checkpoint actually published for this model, check its Hugging Face page before relying on this row.
Cheapest way to run OLMo-1B-hf at its published (F32) precision: 1× P4 on akash, at $0.032/hr per GPU ($0.032/hr total). Quantizing to FP8 or INT4 (rows above) can cost less, but requires a compatible quantized checkpoint to exist for this model.
Weight-to-VRAM math, the fit rules, and how live prices are normalized: full methodology.
More allenai models
- OLMo-2-0425-1B (1.5B, F32)
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- olmOCR-2-7B-1025-FP8 (8.3B, F8_E4M3)
- olmOCR-2-7B-1025 (8.3B, BF16)
- OLMoE-1B-7B-0924 (6.9B, BF16)
