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// Ai2 OLMo / Molmo · Text LLM

Olmo-3.1-32B-Instruct: VRAM & local deployment

32.2B parameters. About 23.3 GB at 4-bit and 72.8 GB at BF16 with one 8K-token request.

released 2025-12-10licence: Commercial OKmemory figures are estimates

01Specs

PublisherAllen Institute for AI · allenai
Family / seriesAi2 OLMo / Molmo · Olmo-3.1
TypeText LLM (text-generation)
Parameters32.2B Source: counted from official safetensors weights
Context length64K tokens (65,536)max_position_embeddings in config.json
Architecture64 layers (16 full-attention) · 48 sliding-window layers (4096) · GQA
Released weightsBF16 · 64.5 GBdownload
LicenceApache-2.0 · Commercial OKPermissive licence (Apache-2.0 / MIT / CC-BY / OpenMDW): commercial use allowed.
Released2025-12-10 (Hugging Face repo created)

02How much VRAM it needs (estimate)

Total = weights + 10% + 0.5GB overhead + KV cache for one request (FP16 KV). More concurrent users multiply the KV column.

PrecisionWeightsTotal @ 8KTotal @ 32KSmallest GPUMac
BF16 / FP16 (original)64.5 GB 72.8 GB74.4 GB RTX PRO 6000 96GBMac 128GB
FP8 / INT8 / Q8_034.3 GB 39.5 GB41.1 GB 2 × RTX 5090 (64GB)Mac 64GB
4-bit (Q4_K_M / AWQ / GPTQ-Int4)19.5 GB 23.3 GB24.9 GB RTX 5090 32GBMac 64GB

KV cache per request: 8K 1.3 GB · 32K 3.0 GB

Bits per weight: BF16 16, FP8 8.5, 4-bit 4.85. “Fits” = total ≤ 90% of memory; Mac GPU can use ~2/3 of unified memory (≤36GB) or ~3/4 (larger). For MoE, all experts must be in memory, so size by total parameters. Method →

03How to run it

Only runtimes the publisher or the runtime’s official library names for this model.

ollama run olmo-3.1:32b

Which inference engine to choose →

04Official repositories & quantised builds

1 official repo(s) from allenai.

05Other Ai2 OLMo / Molmo models

All 31 →
ModelParams4-bit totalReleased
Molmo2-ER4.85B4.9 GB2026-05-04
MolmoWeb-4B4.85B4.9 GB2026-03-20
MolmoPoint-8B8.68B7.5 GB2026-03-16
Olmo-Hybrid-7B7.43B6.5 GB2026-01-28
Molmo2-4B4.85B4.9 GB2025-12-14
Molmo2-8B8.66B7.5 GB2025-12-14
Molmo2-O-7B7.76B10.0 GB2025-12-14
Olmo-3.1-32B-Think32.2B23.3 GB2025-12-10

06Sources

Data checked 2026-01-05. Parameters, context and licence are copied from the official repository; memory figures are our estimates.

Data updated: Self-host open models(UTC+8)