Olmo 3 7B Think
Olmo 3 7B Think is an open-weights language model from Ai2, released November 20, 2025. It has 7B parameters (dense).
We introduce Olmo 3, a family of state-of-the-art, fully-open language models at the 7B and 32B parameter scales. Olmo 3 model construction targets long-context reasoning, function calling, coding, instruction following, general chat, and knowledge recall.
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Can you run Olmo 3 7B Think locally?
The smallest common GPU it runs on is 6 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): Q6_K, split GPU / CPU, roughly 8 tokens per second. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Runs, slowly | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 5.2 GB | 3.3 GB | ~8 |
| 8 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q4_K_M (very good) | 7.0 GB | – | ~37 |
| 12 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 8.5 GB | – | ~36 |
| 16 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 8.5 GB | – | ~50 |
| 24 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 8.5 GB | – | ~89 |
| 32 GB VRAM | Runs on GPU | Q6_K (≈ lossless) | 8.5 GB | – | ~160 |
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for Olmo 3 7B Think yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.