# Save only best model in Trainer

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You can’t use `load_best_model_at_end=True` if you don’t want to save checkpoints: it needs to save checkpoints at every evaluation to make sure you have the best model, and it will always save 2 checkpoints (even if `save_total_limit` is 1): the best one and the last one (to resume an interrupted training).

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