What are the hardware requirements for Athena V1?

Athena V1 requires approximately 26.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Athena V1 and how large is it?

Athena V1 is developed by IkariDev, a model with 13b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Athena V1 perform on standard benchmarks?

Athena V1 has the following published scores: MMLU 55.61. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Athena V1 by IkariDev — VRAM 26.5GB, 4K context

Name: Athena V1
Author: IkariDev

Athena V1 is an open-source language model by IkariDev. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 26.5GB, Context: 4K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11, Arc: 60.1, HellaSwag: 82.6, MMLU: 55.6, GSM8K: 4.9.

Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/IkariDev/Athena-v1

Athena V1 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

ERP

Additional Notes

Merged models include Mythomax, Puddlejumper, Airoboros, Chronos Beluga GGUF.

LLM Name	Athena V1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/IkariDev/Athena-v1
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	26.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	IkariDev
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.4 GB: 1-of-13 2.0 GB: 2-of-13 2.1 GB: 3-of-13 2.0 GB: 4-of-13 2.0 GB: 5-of-13 2.0 GB: 6-of-13 2.0 GB: 7-of-13 2.1 GB: 8-of-13 2.0 GB: 9-of-13 2.0 GB: 10-of-13 2.0 GB: 11-of-13 2.0 GB: 12-of-13 1.9 GB: 13-of-13
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.32.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Beginning of Sentence Token	<s>
End of Sentence Token	</s>
Unk Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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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

Quantized Models of the Athena V1

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Athena V1 GGUF	25	402	5 GB
Athena V1 AWQ	1	3	7 GB
Athena V1 GPTQ	8	5	7 GB
Athena V1 GGML	1	6	5 GB

Best Alternatives to Athena V1

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Luminaura RP 13B	128K / 26 GB	9	1
Yarn Llama 2 13B 128K	128K / 26 GB	184	113
Agent Llama2 13B 80K	80K / 26.4 GB	5	0
Chat Llama2 13B 80K	80K / 52.8 GB	5	0
LongAlign 13B 64K	64K / 26 GB	96	13
LongAlign 13B 64K Base	64K / 26 GB	89	3
LongAlign 13B 64K	64K / 26 GB	11	13
LongAlign 13B 64K Base	64K / 26 GB	6	3
Openbuddy Llama2 13B V15p1 64K	64K / 26.1 GB	4	4
Openbuddy Llama2 13b64k V15	64K / 26.1 GB	12	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than IkariDev/Athena-v1.