Smallest translation models for RTX 3090 24GB

Verified open translation models that fit in 24 GB on RTX 3090 24GB, smallest first — with license clarity and hosted-download status. Top pick: Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-sw (~1.87 GB).

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Verified open translation models that fit in 24 GB on RTX 3090 24GB, smallest first — with license clarity and hosted-download status. Top pick: Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-sw (~1.87 GB).

#ModelEst. VRAMLicenseCommercialHostingFit page
1Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-sw~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
2mdpead/en-cy-translation~1.87 GBcc-by-4.0yesexternalcheck
3aman4014/whisper-bil-model-100k-ct2-int8_float16~1.87 GBmityesexternalcheck
4MihaiPopa-1/OmniTranslate-1.1~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
5telecomadm1145/mamba2_ja2zh_zh2ja_trans~1.87 GBmityesexternalcheck
6mujtabaumarr/opus-mt-en-ur-vocational~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
7Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-deu_eng_fra_por_spa-bat~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
8dsfsi/tiny_aya_earth-lora-r4-eng-nso~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
9Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-big-en-fi~1.87 GBcc-by-4.0yesexternalcheck
10Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-ml-en~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck

Other GPUs: RTX 4090 24GB · RTX 3060 12GB · NVIDIA T4 16GB (free Colab) · A100 80GB · H100 80GB · mac-m3-max-64

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Fit = weights + KV-cache estimate under 24 GB. Recomputed hourly from live catalog state.