What are the hardware requirements for Aura Prototype 26B A4B?

Aura Prototype 26B A4B requires approximately 52 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Aura Prototype 26B A4B and how large is it?

Aura Prototype 26B A4B is developed by EldritchLabs, a model with 26b 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 Aura Prototype 26B A4B?

Aura Prototype 26B A4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Aura Prototype 26B A4B by EldritchLabs — VRAM 52GB

Name: Aura Prototype 26B A4B
Author: EldritchLabs

Aura Prototype 26B A4B is an open-source language model by EldritchLabs. Features: 26b LLM, VRAM: 52GB, License: apache-2.0, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Merged Model All genres Aura Base model:electroglyph/gemma4... Base model:gandalf69/adversary... Base model:gryphe/pantheon-rea... Base model:thedrummer/orion-26... Conversational Creative Creative writing Della Endpoints compatible Eng Fiction Fiction story Fiction writing Gemma4 Horror Image-text-to-text Plot generation Region:us Roleplay Roleplaying Romance Rp Safetensors Scene continue Science fiction Sharded Story Story generation Storytelling Sub-plot generation Swearing Tensorflow Vivid prosing Vivid writing Writing

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/EldritchLabs/Aura-Prototype-26B-A4B

Aura Prototype 26B A4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Aura Prototype 26B A4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/EldritchLabs/Aura-Prototype-26B-A4B
Base Model(s)	Gandalf69/Adversary-26B-A4B-v0 TheDrummer/Orion-26B-A4B-v1.1 Gryphe/Pantheon-Reasoning-26B-A4B-1.1-V2 Gemma4 26B Fiction Bf16 Gandalf69/Adversary-26B-A4B-v0 TheDrummer/Orion-26B-A4B-v1.1 Gryphe/Pantheon-Reasoning-26B-A4B-1.1-V2 electroglyph/gemma4-26b-fiction-bf16
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	26b
Required VRAM	52 GB
Updated	2026-09-21
Maintainer	EldritchLabs
Model Type	gemma4
Model Files	4.6 GB: 1-of-11 4.9 GB: 2-of-11 4.9 GB: 3-of-11 4.9 GB: 4-of-11 4.9 GB: 5-of-11 4.9 GB: 6-of-11 4.9 GB: 7-of-11 4.9 GB: 8-of-11 4.9 GB: 9-of-11 4.9 GB: 10-of-11 3.3 GB: 11-of-11
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.8.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GemmaTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	262144

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