What are the hardware requirements for Fred 9B V1.2?

Fred 9B V1.2 requires approximately 19.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Fred 9B V1.2 and how large is it?

Fred 9B V1.2 is developed by CrowdMind, a model with 9b 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 Fred 9B V1.2?

Fred 9B V1.2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Fred 9B V1.2 by CrowdMind — VRAM 19.3GB

Name: Fred 9B V1.2
Author: CrowdMind

Fred 9B V1.2 is an open-source language model by CrowdMind. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 19.3GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-9b Conversational En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/CrowdMind/Fred-9B-v1.2

Fred 9B V1.2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Fred 9B V1.2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/CrowdMind/Fred-9B-v1.2
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	19.3 GB
Updated	2026-09-14
Maintainer	CrowdMind
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-4 5.3 GB: 2-of-4 5.4 GB: 3-of-4 3.3 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Qwen3.8 Distilled 9B NPU2	256K / GB	3854	3
Qwen3.5 9B	0K / 19.3 GB	12207758	1799
Ornith 1.0 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	1244753	542
Qwable 9B Claude Fable 5	0K / 18.8 GB	1088	115
Qwythos 9B Claude Mythos 5 1M	0K / 18.8 GB	37427	906
Qwen3.8 9B Distill	0K / 19.3 GB	5839	148
Negentropy Claude Opus 4.7 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	63	26
WeMM Embedding 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	2618	105
Qwythos 9B V2	0K / 19.3 GB	19208	156
Ornith 1.5 9B	0K / 18.9 GB	1324	120

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than CrowdMind/Fred-9B-v1.2.