What are the hardware requirements for Athenas Guard 9B?

Athenas Guard 9B requires approximately 17.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Athenas Guard 9B and how large is it?

Athenas Guard 9B is developed by Kodjaoglanian, 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 Athenas Guard 9B?

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

Athenas Guard 9B by Kodjaoglanian — VRAM 17.9GB, 256K context

Name: Athenas Guard 9B
Author: Kodjaoglanian

Athenas Guard 9B is an open-source language model by Kodjaoglanian. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 17.9GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.26.

Athenas Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-9b Conversational Dataset:kodjaoglanian/guardrai... Endpoints compatible Guardrail Input-classification Jailbreak-defense Moderation Prompt-injection Pt Qwen3 5 text Region:us Safetensors Safety Trust-and-safety

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Kodjaoglanian/Athenas-Guard-9B

Athenas Guard 9B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Athenas Guard 9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Kodjaoglanian/Athenas-Guard-9B
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	17.9 GB
Updated	2026-10-04
Maintainer	Kodjaoglanian
Model Type	qwen3_5_text
Model Files	17.9 GB
Supported Languages	pt
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.17.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	248320
Errors	replace

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