What are the hardware requirements for IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct?

IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct requires approximately 79.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct and how large is it?

IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct is developed by IQuestLab, a model with 40b 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 IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct?

IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct by IQuestLab — VRAM 79.5GB, 128K context

Name: IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct
Author: IQuestLab

IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct is an open-source language model by IQuestLab. Features: 40b LLM, VRAM: 79.5GB, Context: 128K, License: other, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Arxiv:2512.13472 Arxiv:2512.22087 Arxiv:2512.23611 Codegen Conversational Custom code En Instruct Iquestcoder Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct

IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct
Model Size	40b
Required VRAM	79.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-16
Maintainer	IQuestLab
Model Type	iquestcoder
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	42.8 GB: 1-of-2 36.7 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	IQuestCoderForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.55.4
Tokenizer Class	IQuestCoderTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	76800
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...est Coder V1 40B Instruct 8bit	6	71	42 GB
...est Coder V1 40B Instruct 4bit	2	18	22 GB
...est Coder V1 40B Instruct 6bit	1	12	32 GB

Best Alternatives to IQuest Coder V1 40B Instruct

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...est Coder V1 40B Instruct 8bit	128K / 42.4 GB	71	6
...est Coder V1 40B Instruct 4bit	128K / 22.3 GB	18	2
...est Coder V1 40B Instruct 6bit	128K / 32.4 GB	12	1