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Aya Vision 8B

Parameters
8.6B
Architecture
Dense
Max context
16K tokens
License
cc-by-nc-4.0
Released
2025-03

How to run it

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Cohere, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/CohereLabs/aya-vision-8b (opens in a new tab)

Free Hugging Face account needed: accept the license on the model page and the download starts right away.

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

Memory needed

Weights plus KV cache and runtime overhead. Leave a little extra free for the operating system and other apps.

KV cache: sliding-window hybrid: 1 in 4 layers is global.

Quantization Quality Weights Total at 8K context Total at 16K context Download
Q2_K Low 3.5 GB 4.4 GB 4.8 GB All files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M Low 4.2 GB 5.2 GB 5.6 GB All files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M Good 5.3 GB 6.2 GB 6.6 GB All files (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M High 6.1 GB 7.1 GB 7.5 GB All files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K High 7.1 GB 8.0 GB 8.4 GB All files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 Very high 9.1 GB 10.1 GB 10.5 GB All files (opens in a new tab)
F16 Full 17.3 GB 18.2 GB 18.6 GB Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Best hardware for Aya Vision 8B

The least expensive GPU in our catalog that runs it without offloading is the Intel Arc A380 (launch price $139) at Q3_K_M.

Grade · points Hardware Quant Memory Speed Fit
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q8_0 10.9 GB / 16.0 GB 48.7 tok/s Runs well
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q8_0 10.9 GB / 16.0 GB 53.3 tok/s Runs well
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q8_0 10.9 GB / 16.0 GB 64.9 tok/s Runs well
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Q8_0 10.9 GB / 16.0 GB 69.5 tok/s Runs well
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q8_0 10.9 GB / 16.0 GB 39.9 tok/s Runs well
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Q6_K 8.6 GB / 12.0 GB 49.7 tok/s Runs well
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 14.3/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 F16 19.8 GB / 32.0 GB 59.8 tok/s Runs well
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.2/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 14.8/15 Intel Arc B580 Q5_K_M 7.7 GB / 12.0 GB 40.9 tok/s Runs well
74 ptsGreat (A) · 74 of 100 points: Model quality 19.2/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 14.8/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Q5_K_M 7.7 GB / 12.0 GB 42.3 tok/s Runs well
73 ptsGreat (A) · 73 of 100 points: Model quality 18.8/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 14.8/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Q4_K_M 6.6 GB / 8.0 GB 38.7 tok/s Runs well

Check it on your own hardware

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.