What are the hardware requirements for Kraken?

Kraken requires approximately 47.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kraken and how large is it?

Kraken is developed by Daemontatox, a model with 24b 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 Kraken?

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

Kraken by Daemontatox — VRAM 47.3GB, 32K context

Name: Kraken
Author: Daemontatox

Kraken is an open-source language model by Daemontatox. Features: 24b LLM, VRAM: 47.3GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Autotrain compatible Base model:cognitivecomputatio... Base model:finetune:cognitivec... Conversational Dataset:custom Dataset:open-domain Dataset:synthetic En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Instruct Language-model Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Daemontatox/Kraken

Kraken Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kraken
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Daemontatox/Kraken
Base Model(s)	...hin Mistral 24B Venice Edition cognitivecomputations/Dolphin-Mistral-24B-Venice-Edition
Model Size	24b
Required VRAM	47.3 GB
Updated	2025-09-19
Maintainer	Daemontatox
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-10 4.8 GB: 2-of-10 4.8 GB: 3-of-10 4.9 GB: 4-of-10 4.8 GB: 5-of-10 4.8 GB: 6-of-10 4.9 GB: 7-of-10 4.8 GB: 8-of-10 4.8 GB: 9-of-10 3.8 GB: 10-of-10
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Kraken

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...ral Nemo Instruct 24B Merge V1	1000K / 24.6 GB	9	0
...all 3.1 24B Instruct 2503 Text	128K / 47.3 GB	16	0
Cydonia 24B V4.3	128K / 47.3 GB	3652	138
Slimaki 24B V1.2	128K / 47.3 GB	28	6
Neural V1 24B	128K / 47.3 GB	9	3
MS3.2 PaintedFantasy V4.1 24B	128K / 47.3 GB	80	18
Cydonia 24B V4.1	128K / 47.3 GB	2162	80
Slimaki 24B V1	128K / 47.3 GB	15	10
Asmodeus 24B V1	128K / 47.3 GB	35	13
MS3.2 PaintedFantasy V3 24B	128K / 47.3 GB	28	35

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