What are the hardware requirements for Darkforest?

Darkforest requires approximately 61.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Darkforest and how large is it?

Darkforest is developed by BlackwoodAI, a model with 30.5b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Darkforest?

Darkforest is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Darkforest by BlackwoodAI — VRAM 61.2GB, 256K context

Name: Darkforest
Author: BlackwoodAI

Darkforest is an open-source language model by BlackwoodAI. Features: 30.5b LLM, VRAM: 61.2GB, Context: 256K, License: other, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Merged Model Conversational Cybersecurity Defensive-security Endpoints compatible Private Qwen3 moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/BlackwoodAI/Darkforest

Darkforest Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Darkforest
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/BlackwoodAI/Darkforest
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	30.5b
Required VRAM	61.2 GB
Updated	2026-09-17
Maintainer	BlackwoodAI
Model Type	qwen3_moe
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-13 5.0 GB: 2-of-13 5.0 GB: 3-of-13 5.0 GB: 4-of-13 5.0 GB: 5-of-13 5.0 GB: 6-of-13 5.0 GB: 7-of-13 5.0 GB: 8-of-13 5.0 GB: 9-of-13 5.0 GB: 10-of-13 5.0 GB: 11-of-13 5.0 GB: 12-of-13 1.2 GB: 13-of-13
Model Architecture	Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.5.4
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Darkforest

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SU 01	256K / 61.1 GB	199	28
SimpleChat 30BA3B V2	195K / 61.1 GB	15	5
Rubicon Preview	40K / 61.1 GB	39	25
SimpleChat 30BA3B V1	39K / 61.1 GB	7	1
MiroThinker 1.7 Mini Mlx 4Bit	256K / 17.2 GB	37	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than BlackwoodAI/Darkforest.