Model reference · open weights
donut is an open-weight language model from naver-clova-ix. donut-base (BF16) weighs 809 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the naver-clova-ix/donut-base model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | naver-clova-ix |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-07-19 |
| VRAM | 809 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
How much memory each request adds isn't estimated yet for this architecture. The weights need at least the cards below, plus room for the context.
| Card | Weights alone |
|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits |
| L40S 48 GB | fits |
| A100 80 GB | fits |
| H100 80 GB | fits |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits |
| H200 141 GB | fits |
| B200 180 GB | fits |
From the model card
Donut model pre-trained-only. It was introduced in the paper OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer by Geewok et al. and first released in this repository.
Disclaimer: The team releasing Donut did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.
Donut consists of a vision encoder (Swin Transformer) and a text decoder (BART). Given an image, the encoder first encodes the image into a tensor of embeddings (of shape batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size), after which the decoder autoregressively generates text, conditioned on the encoding of the encoder.
This model is meant to be fine-tuned on a downstream task, like document image classification or document parsing. See the model hub to look for fine-tuned versions on a task that interests you.
We refer to the documentation which includes code examples.
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2111-15664,
author = {Geewook Kim and
Teakgyu Hong and
Moonbin Yim and
Jinyoung Park and
Jinyeong Yim and
Wonseok Hwang and
Sangdoo Yun and
Dongyoon Han and
Seunghyun Park},
title = {Donut: Document Understanding Transformer without {OCR}},
journal = {CoRR},
volume = {abs/2111.15664},
year = {2021},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15664},
eprinttype = {arXiv},
eprint = {2111.15664},
timestamp = {Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:50:44 +0100},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2111-15664.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.