Notebooks are beginner friendly. Read our guide. Add your dataset, click "Run All", and export your finetuned model to GGUF, Ollama, vLLM or Hugging Face.
| Unsloth supports | Free Notebooks | Performance | Memory use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 3n (4B) | ▶️ Start for free | 1.5x faster | 50% less |
| Qwen3 (14B) | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| Qwen3 (4B): GRPO | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 80% less |
| Gemma 3 (4B) | ▶️ Start for free | 1.6x faster | 60% less |
| Llama 3.2 (3B) | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| Phi-4 (14B) | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| Llama 3.2 Vision (11B) | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 50% less |
| Llama 3.1 (8B) | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| Mistral v0.3 (7B) | ▶️ Start for free | 2.2x faster | 75% less |
| Orpheus-TTS (3B) | ▶️ Start for free | 1.5x faster | 50% less |
pip install unsloth
For Windows install instructions, see here.
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You can also see our documentation for more detailed installation and updating instructions here.
Install with pip (recommended) for Linux devices:
pip install unsloth
To update Unsloth:
pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir unsloth unsloth_zoo
See here for advanced pip install instructions.
[!warning] Python 3.13 does not support Unsloth. Use 3.12, 3.11 or 3.10
Install NVIDIA Video Driver: You should install the latest version of your GPUs driver. Download drivers here: NVIDIA GPU Drive.
Install Visual Studio C++: You will need Visual Studio, with C++ installed. By default, C++ is not installed with Visual Studio, so make sure you select all of the C++ options. Also select options for Windows 10/11 SDK. For detailed instructions with options, see here.
Install CUDA Toolkit: Follow the instructions to install CUDA Toolkit.
Install PyTorch: You will need the correct version of PyTorch that is compatible with your CUDA drivers, so make sure to select them carefully. Install PyTorch.
Install Unsloth:
pip install unsloth
To run Unsloth directly on Windows:
SFTConfig, set dataset_num_proc=1 to avoid a crashing issue:SFTConfig(
dataset_num_proc=1,
...
)
For advanced installation instructions or if you see weird errors during installations:
torch and triton. Go to https://pytorch.org to install it. For example pip install torch torchvision torchaudio tritonnvcc. If that fails, you need to install cudatoolkit or CUDA drivers.xformers manually. You can try installing vllm and seeing if vllm succeeds. Check if xformers succeeded with python -m xformers.info Go to https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers. Another option is to install flash-attn for Ampere GPUs.torch, triton, and xformers are compatible with one another. The PyTorch Compatibility Matrix may be useful.bitsandbytes and check it with python -m bitsandbytes⚠️Only use Conda if you have it. If not, use Pip. Select either pytorch-cuda=11.8,12.1 for CUDA 11.8 or CUDA 12.1. We support python=3.10,3.11,3.12.
conda create --name unsloth_env \
python=3.11 \
pytorch-cuda=12.1 \
pytorch cudatoolkit xformers -c pytorch -c nvidia -c xformers \
-y
conda activate unsloth_env
pip install unsloth
mkdir -p ~/miniconda3
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
bash ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p ~/miniconda3
rm -rf ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
~/miniconda3/bin/conda init bash
~/miniconda3/bin/conda init zsh
⚠️Do **NOT** use this if you have Conda. Pip is a bit more complex since there are dependency issues. The pip command is different for torch 2.2,2.3,2.4,2.5 and CUDA versions.
For other torch versions, we support torch211, torch212, torch220, torch230, torch240 and for CUDA versions, we support cu118 and cu121 and cu124. For Ampere devices (A100, H100, RTX3090) and above, use cu118-ampere or cu121-ampere or cu124-ampere.
For example, if you have torch 2.4 and CUDA 12.1, use:
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install "unsloth[cu121-torch240] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
Another example, if you have torch 2.5 and CUDA 12.4, use:
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install "unsloth[cu124-torch250] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
And other examples:
pip install "unsloth[cu121-ampere-torch240] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
pip install "unsloth[cu118-ampere-torch240] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
pip install "unsloth[cu121-torch240] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
pip install "unsloth[cu118-torch240] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
pip install "unsloth[cu121-torch230] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
pip install "unsloth[cu121-ampere-torch230] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
pip install "unsloth[cu121-torch250] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
pip install "unsloth[cu124-ampere-torch250] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"
Or, run the below in a terminal to get the optimal pip installation command:
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unslothai/unsloth/main/unsloth/_auto_install.py | python -
Or, run the below manually in a Python REPL:
try: import torch
except: raise ImportError('Install torch via `pip install torch`')
from packaging.version import Version as V
v = V(torch.__version__)
cuda = str(torch.version.cuda)
is_ampere = torch.cuda.get_device_capability()[0] >= 8
if cuda != "12.1" and cuda != "11.8" and cuda != "12.4": raise RuntimeError(f"CUDA = {cuda} not supported!")
if v <= V('2.1.0'): raise RuntimeError(f"Torch = {v} too old!")
elif v <= V('2.1.1'): x = 'cu{}{}-torch211'
elif v <= V('2.1.2'): x = 'cu{}{}-torch212'
elif v < V('2.3.0'): x = 'cu{}{}-torch220'
elif v < V('2.4.0'): x = 'cu{}{}-torch230'
elif v < V('2.5.0'): x = 'cu{}{}-torch240'
elif v < V('2.6.0'): x = 'cu{}{}-torch250'
else: raise RuntimeError(f"Torch = {v} too new!")
x = x.format(cuda.replace(".", ""), "-ampere" if is_ampere else "")
print(f'pip install --upgrade pip && pip install "unsloth[{x}] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git"')
UNSLOTH_USE_MODELSCOPE=1, and install the modelscope library by: pip install modelscope -U.unsloth_cli.py also supports
UNSLOTH_USE_MODELSCOPE=1to download models and datasets. please remember to use the model and dataset id in the ModelScope community.
from unsloth import FastLanguageModel, FastModel
import torch
from trl import SFTTrainer, SFTConfig
from datasets import load_dataset
max_seq_length = 2048 # Supports RoPE Scaling internally, so choose any!
# Get LAION dataset
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/OIG/resolve/main/unified_chip2.jsonl"
dataset = load_dataset("json", data_files = {"train" : url}, split = "train")
# 4bit pre quantized models we support for 4x faster downloading + no OOMs.
fourbit_models = [
"unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-bnb-4bit", # Llama-3.1 2x faster
"unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
"unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-bnb-4bit",
"unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-bnb-4bit", # 4bit for 405b!
"unsloth/Mistral-Small-Instruct-2409", # Mistral 22b 2x faster!
"unsloth/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3-bnb-4bit",
"unsloth/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct", # Phi-3.5 2x faster!
"unsloth/Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct",
"unsloth/gemma-2-9b-bnb-4bit",
"unsloth/gemma-2-27b-bnb-4bit", # Gemma 2x faster!
"unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-bnb-4bit", # NEW! Llama 3.2 models
"unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
"unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B-bnb-4bit",
"unsloth/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
"unsloth/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-bnb-4bit" # NEW! Llama 3.3 70B!
] # More models at https://huggingface.co/unsloth
model, tokenizer = FastModel.from_pretrained(
model_name = "unsloth/gemma-3-4B-it",
max_seq_length = 2048, # Choose any for long context!
load_in_4bit = True, # 4 bit quantization to reduce memory
load_in_8bit = False, # [NEW!] A bit more accurate, uses 2x memory
full_finetuning = False, # [NEW!] We have full finetuning now!
# token = "hf_...", # use one if using gated models
)
# Do model patching and add fast LoRA weights
model = FastLanguageModel.get_peft_model(
model,
r = 16,
target_modules = ["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj",
"gate_proj", "up_proj", "down_proj",],
lora_alpha = 16,
lora_dropout = 0, # Supports any, but = 0 is optimized
bias = "none", # Supports any, but = "none" is optimized
# [NEW] "unsloth" uses 30% less VRAM, fits 2x larger batch sizes!
use_gradient_checkpointing = "unsloth", # True or "unsloth" for very long context
random_state = 3407,
max_seq_length = max_seq_length,
use_rslora = False, # We support rank stabilized LoRA
loftq_config = None, # And LoftQ
)
trainer = SFTTrainer(
model = model,
train_dataset = dataset,
tokenizer = tokenizer,
args = SFTConfig(
max_seq_length = max_seq_length,
per_device_train_batch_size = 2,
gradient_accumulation_steps = 4,
warmup_steps = 10,
max_steps = 60,
logging_steps = 1,
output_dir = "outputs",
optim = "adamw_8bit",
seed = 3407,
),
)
trainer.train()
# Go to https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/wiki for advanced tips like
# (1) Saving to GGUF / merging to 16bit for vLLM
# (2) Continued training from a saved LoRA adapter
# (3) Adding an evaluation loop / OOMs
# (4) Customized chat templates
RL including DPO, GRPO, PPO, Reward Modelling, Online DPO all work with Unsloth. We're in 🤗Hugging Face's official docs! We're on the GRPO docs and the DPO docs! List of RL notebooks:
import os
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = "0" # Optional set GPU device ID
from unsloth import FastLanguageModel
import torch
from trl import DPOTrainer, DPOConfig
max_seq_length = 2048
model, tokenizer = FastLanguageModel.from_pretrained(
model_name = "unsloth/zephyr-sft-bnb-4bit",
max_seq_length = max_seq_length,
load_in_4bit = True,
)
# Do model patching and add fast LoRA weights
model = FastLanguageModel.get_peft_model(
model,
r = 64,
target_modules = ["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj",
"gate_proj", "up_proj", "down_proj",],
lora_alpha = 64,
lora_dropout = 0, # Supports any, but = 0 is optimized
bias = "none", # Supports any, but = "none" is optimized
# [NEW] "unsloth" uses 30% less VRAM, fits 2x larger batch sizes!
use_gradient_checkpointing = "unsloth", # True or "unsloth" for very long context
random_state = 3407,
max_seq_length = max_seq_length,
)
dpo_trainer = DPOTrainer(
model = model,
ref_model = None,
train_dataset = YOUR_DATASET_HERE,
# eval_dataset = YOUR_DATASET_HERE,
tokenizer = tokenizer,
args = DPOConfig(
per_device_train_batch_size = 4,
gradient_accumulation_steps = 8,
warmup_ratio = 0.1,
num_train_epochs = 3,
logging_steps = 1,
optim = "adamw_8bit",
seed = 42,
output_dir = "outputs",
max_length = 1024,
max_prompt_length = 512,
beta = 0.1,
),
)
dpo_trainer.train()
We tested using the Alpaca Dataset, a batch size of 2, gradient accumulation steps of 4, rank = 32, and applied QLoRA on all linear layers (q, k, v, o, gate, up, down):
| Model | VRAM | 🦥 Unsloth speed | 🦥 VRAM reduction | 🦥 Longer context | 😊 Hugging Face + FA2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.3 (70B) | 80GB | 2x | >75% | 13x longer | 1x |
| Llama 3.1 (8B) | 80GB | 2x | >70% | 12x longer | 1x |
We tested Llama 3.1 (8B) Instruct and did 4bit QLoRA on all linear layers (Q, K, V, O, gate, up and down) with rank = 32 with a batch size of 1. We padded all sequences to a certain maximum sequence length to mimic long context finetuning workloads.
| GPU VRAM | 🦥Unsloth context length | Hugging Face + FA2 |
|---|---|---|
| 8 GB | 2,972 | OOM |
| 12 GB | 21,848 | 932 |
| 16 GB | 40,724 | 2,551 |
| 24 GB | 78,475 | 5,789 |
| 40 GB | 153,977 | 12,264 |
| 48 GB | 191,728 | 15,502 |
| 80 GB | 342,733 | 28,454 |
We tested Llama 3.3 (70B) Instruct on a 80GB A100 and did 4bit QLoRA on all linear layers (Q, K, V, O, gate, up and down) with rank = 32 with a batch size of 1. We padded all sequences to a certain maximum sequence length to mimic long context finetuning workloads.
| GPU VRAM | 🦥Unsloth context length | Hugging Face + FA2 |
|---|---|---|
| 48 GB | 12,106 | OOM |
| 80 GB | 89,389 | 6,916 |
You can cite the Unsloth repo as follows:
@software{unsloth,
author = {Daniel Han, Michael Han and Unsloth team},
title = {Unsloth},
url = {http://github.com/unslothai/unsloth},
year = {2023}
}
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