SAVRN
Search Contact SAVRN

Open-weight model · Translation

t5-large

by T5 community google-t5/t5-large

The developers of the Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) write: T5-Large is the checkpoint with 770 million parameters. The developers write in a blog post that the model: See the blog post and research paper for further details.

Parameters738M
Context
Weights11.8 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads374.6k

Runs On

What it takes to serve t5-large (738M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 1.5 GB 1.8 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.7 GB 0.9 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.4 GB 0.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on t5-large

Released 2022-03-02 and last updated 2023-04-06, t5-large still moves 374,572 downloads a month, and the size explains why. Its 738 million parameters need 1.8 GB at 16-bit and 0.4 GB at 4-bit, so the $1.85 an hour MI300X our Index lists as the cheapest slot is oversized; on a card that size you pay for the hour, not the model. It is text-to-text, listed here under translation, pre-trained on C4 across unsupervised and supervised tasks.

Apache 2.0 clears commercial use, modification and redistribution, with notices kept and significant changes stated, so there is no license conversation to schedule. The publisher counts 770 million parameters where our file count reads 738 million, so confirm which checkpoint you hold. Weights ship in safetensors, pytorch, jax and tf, 11.8 GB across 10 files, and you only need one format on disk. No context length is recorded.

Model Card

By T5 community, published under apache-2.0, revision 150ebc2c4b72.

Model Card for T5 Large

Table of Contents

  1. Model Details
  2. Uses
  3. Bias, Risks, and Limitations
  4. Training Details
  5. Evaluation
  6. Environmental Impact
  7. Citation
  8. Model Card Authors
  9. How To Get Started With the Model

Model Details

Model Description

The developers of the Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) write:

With T5, we propose reframing all NLP tasks into a unified text-to-text-format where the input and output are always text strings, in contrast to BERT-style models that can only output either a class label or a span of the input. Our text-to-text framework allows us to use the same model, loss function, and hyperparameters on any NLP task.

T5-Large is the checkpoint with 770 million parameters.

Read the full model card (802 words)

Configuration

Architecture
T5ForConditionalGeneration
Vocabulary size
32,128
Model type
t5

Identity and Version

Repository
google-t5/t5-large
Publisher
T5 community
Task
Translation
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
738M parameters
Languages
en, fr, ro, de
Revision
150ebc2c4b72291e770f58e6057481c8d2ed331a
First published
2022-03-02
Last updated
2023-04-06

Files and Weights

10 files, 11.8 GB in total. The weights are 4 files totalling 11.8 GB in bin, h5, msgpack, safetensors.

Weights4 files · 11.8 GB
Configuration2 files · 1.4 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 2.2 MB
Documentation1 file · 8.5 KB
Repository1 file · 445 B
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
flax_model.msgpackWeights3.0 GB e58141eef80c
model.safetensorsWeights3.0 GB bb566a699a69
pytorch_model.binWeights3.0 GB c4d6bbca0f16
tf_model.h5Weights3.0 GB 3b61652ce575
config.jsonConfiguration1.2 KB
generation_config.jsonConfiguration147 B
README.mdDocumentation8.5 KB
.gitattributesRepository445 B
spiece.modelTokenizer791.7 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer1.4 MB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
11.8 GB
Download from T5 community

Released by T5 community through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published11.8 GB
16-bit1.5 GB
8-bit0.7 GB
4-bit0.4 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About t5-large

How much GPU memory does t5-large need?

About 1.8 GB at 16-bit and 0.4 GB at 4-bit: the weights (738M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run t5-large on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use t5-large commercially?

Yes. t5-large is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

Similar Models

This model is a fine-tuned checkpoint of mBART-large-50. mbart-large-50-many-to-many-mmt is fine-tuned for multilingual machine translation. It was introduced in Multilingual Translation with Extensible Multilingual Pretraining and Finetuning paper. The model can translate directly between any pair of 50 languages. To translate into a target language, the target language id is forced as the first generated token. To force the target language id as the first generated token, pass the forcedbostokenid parameter to the generate method. See the model hub to look for more fine-tuned versions. Arabic (arAR), Czech (csCZ), German (deDE), English (enXX), Spanish (esXX), Estonian (etEE), Finnish…

Open weights 611M parameters 1,024 tokens transformers

Model · Translation

mbart-large-en-ro

AI at Meta

This is mbart-large-cc25, finetuned on wmtenro. It scores BLEU 28.1 without post processing and BLEU 38 with postprocessing. Instructions in romanianpostprocessing.md Original Code: https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/mbart Docs: https://huggingface.co/transformers/master/modeldoc/mbart.html

Open weights mit 611M parameters 1,024 tokens transformers

This is the model card of IndicTrans2 En-Indic Distilled 200M variant. Please refer to section 7.6: Distilled Models in the TMLR submission for further details on model training, data and metrics. Please refer to the github repository for a detail description on how to use HF compatible IndicTrans2 models for inference. - New RoPE based IndicTrans2 models which are capable of handling sequence lengths upto 2048 tokens are available here - These models can be used by just changing the modelname parameter. Please read the model card of the RoPE-IT2 models for more information about the generation. - It is recommended to run these models with flashattention2 for efficient generation. If you…

Access requested at publisher mit 275M parameters transformers

Neural machine translation model for translating from English (en) to Bulgarian (bg). This model is part of the OPUS-MT project, an effort to make neural machine translation models widely available and accessible for many languages in the world. All models are originally trained using the amazing framework of Marian NMT, an efficient NMT implementation written in pure C++. The models have been converted to pyTorch using the transformers library by huggingface. Training data is taken from OPUS and training pipelines use the procedures of OPUS-MT-train. You can also use OPUS-MT models with the transformers pipelines, for example: The work is supported by the European Language Grid as pilot…

Open weights cc-by-4.0 238M parameters 1,024 tokens transformers

Neural machine translation model for translating from Turkish (tr) to English (en). This model is part of the OPUS-MT project, an effort to make neural machine translation models widely available and accessible for many languages in the world. All models are originally trained using the amazing framework of Marian NMT, an efficient NMT implementation written in pure C++. The models have been converted to pyTorch using the transformers library by huggingface. Training data is taken from OPUS and training pipelines use the procedures of OPUS-MT-train. You can also use OPUS-MT models with the transformers pipelines, for example: The work is supported by the European Language Grid as pilot…

Open weights cc-by-4.0 235M parameters 1,024 tokens transformers

Model · Translation

t5-base

T5 community

The developers of the Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) write: T5-Base is the checkpoint with 220 million parameters. The developers write in a blog post that the model: See the blog post and research paper for further details. The model is pre-trained on the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus (C4), which was developed and released in the context of the same research paper as T5. The model was pre-trained on a on a multi-task mixture of unsupervised (1.) and supervised tasks (2.). Thereby, the following datasets were being used for (1.) and (2.): 1. Datasets used for Unsupervised denoising objective: 2. Datasets used for Supervised text-to-text language modeling objective - CoLA Warstadt et…

Open weights apache-2.0 223M parameters transformers