What are the hardware requirements for Astheral?

Astheral requires approximately 16.1 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 Astheral and how large is it?

Astheral is developed by SEE7, a model with 8b 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 Astheral?

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

Astheral by SEE7 — VRAM 16.1GB, 128K context

Name: Astheral
Author: SEE7

Astheral is an open-source language model by SEE7. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.1, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Astheral Base model:finetune:nousresear... Base model:nousresearch/deephe... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Qlora Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/SEE7/Astheral

Astheral Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Astheral
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/SEE7/Astheral
Base Model(s)	...eepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview NousResearch/DeepHermes-3-Llama-3-8B-Preview
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-11-13
Maintainer	SEE7
Model Type	llama
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-5 3.9 GB: 2-of-5 3.9 GB: 3-of-5 3.2 GB: 4-of-5 1.1 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.1
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.56.2
Vocabulary Size	128256

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