What are the hardware requirements for Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker?

Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker requires approximately 29.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker and how large is it?

Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker is developed by ServiceNow-AI, a model with 15b 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 Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker?

Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker by ServiceNow-AI — VRAM 29.9GB, 64K context

Name: Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker
Author: ServiceNow-AI

Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker is an open-source language model by ServiceNow-AI. Features: 15b LLM, VRAM: 29.9GB, Context: 64K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Arxiv:2508.10948 Conversational Endpoints compatible Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ServiceNow-AI/Apriel-Nemotron-15b-Thinker

Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ServiceNow-AI/Apriel-Nemotron-15b-Thinker
Model Size	15b
Required VRAM	29.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	ServiceNow-AI
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-7 4.9 GB: 2-of-7 4.9 GB: 3-of-7 4.9 GB: 4-of-7 4.9 GB: 5-of-7 4.9 GB: 6-of-7 0.5 GB: 7-of-7
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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