What are the hardware requirements for DaringMaid 20B?

DaringMaid 20B requires approximately 40 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 DaringMaid 20B and how large is it?

DaringMaid 20B is developed by Kooten, a model with 20b 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 DaringMaid 20B?

DaringMaid 20B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DaringMaid 20B by Kooten — VRAM 40GB, 4K context

Name: DaringMaid 20B
Author: Kooten

DaringMaid 20B is an open-source language model by Kooten. Features: 20b LLM, VRAM: 40GB, Context: 4K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

En Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Kooten/DaringMaid-20B

DaringMaid 20B Benchmarks

LLME Score: 0.10944

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

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DaringMaid 20B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

The model was created by merging several other models, including sequelbox/DynamicFactor, NeverSleep/Noromaid, Undi95/Utopia, tavtav/Rose, and CalderaAI/Thorns, among others. Specific merge details are available in the 'Recipe' folder in the repository.

Supported Languages

en (proficient)

Input Output

Input Format:

Alpaca

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text

LLM Name	DaringMaid 20B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Kooten/DaringMaid-20B
Model Size	20b
Required VRAM	40 GB
Updated	2026-05-23
Maintainer	Kooten
Model Type	llama
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-5 10.0 GB: 2-of-5 10.0 GB: 3-of-5 9.9 GB: 4-of-5 0.1 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.35.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

Quantized Models of the DaringMaid 20B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
DaringMaid 20B GGUF	20	440	8 GB
DaringMaid 20B GPTQ	5	10	10 GB
DaringMaid 20B AWQ	2	10	10 GB

Best Alternatives to DaringMaid 20B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Internlm2 5 20B Llamafied	256K / 39.9 GB	1658	5
Stellaris Internlm2 20B R512	32K / 39.8 GB	9	3
Internlm2 Chat 20B Llama Old	32K / 39.6 GB	62	3
Internlm2 Base 20B Llama	32K / 39.6 GB	7	3
Internlm2 Base 20B Llama	32K / 39.6 GB	6	0
Internlm2 20B Llama	32K / 39.6 GB	200	20
Deita 20B	32K / 39.8 GB	63	1
Bagel 20B V04 Llama	32K / 39.6 GB	10	7
Bagel DPO 20B V04 Llama	32K / 39.6 GB	18	3
Internlm2 Limarp Chat 20B	32K / 39.6 GB	11	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Kooten/DaringMaid-20B.

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Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
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