What are the hardware requirements for Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha?

Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha requires approximately 15.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha and how large is it?

Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha is developed by NousResearch, a model with 7b 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 Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha?

Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha by NousResearch — VRAM 15.3GB, 32K context

Name: Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha
Author: NousResearch

Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha is an open-source language model by NousResearch. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 15.3GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

Base model:finetune:mistralai/... Base model:mistralai/mistral-7... Chatml Conversational Distillation En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Gpt4 Instruct Llava Llava mistral Mistral Multimodal Pytorch Region:us Sharded Synthetic data Vision

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Vision-Alpha

Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Vision-Language Model, Vision-Language Action Model

Supported Languages

en (fluent)

Training Details

Data Sources:

LVIS-INSTRUCT4V, ShareGPT4V, Private Function Calling Data, OpenHermes-2.5

Input Output

Input Format:

Vicuna-V1 prompt template (conv_llava_v1)

Accepted Modalities:

text, image

LLM Name	Nous Hermes 2 Vision Alpha
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Vision-Alpha
Base Model(s)	mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1 mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	15.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-08
Maintainer	NousResearch
Model Type	llava_mistral
Model Files	0.0 GB 9.9 GB: 1-of-2 5.4 GB: 2-of-2 0.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlavaMistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.34.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32002
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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