What are the hardware requirements for Nether Moon 12B Heretic?

Nether Moon 12B Heretic requires approximately 24.5 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 Nether Moon 12B Heretic and how large is it?

Nether Moon 12B Heretic is developed by Sorihon, a model with 12b 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 Nether Moon 12B Heretic?

Nether Moon 12B Heretic is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Nether Moon 12B Heretic by Sorihon — VRAM 24.5GB, 128K context

Name: Nether Moon 12B Heretic
Author: Sorihon

Nether Moon 12B Heretic is an open-source language model by Sorihon. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 128K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Base model:finetune:vortex5/ne... Base model:vortex5/nether-moon... Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Sorihon/Nether-Moon-12B-Heretic

Nether Moon 12B Heretic Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Nether Moon 12B Heretic
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Sorihon/Nether-Moon-12B-Heretic
Base Model(s)	Nether Moon 12B Vortex5/Nether-Moon-12B
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-22
Maintainer	Sorihon
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-5 4.9 GB: 2-of-5 4.9 GB: 3-of-5 4.9 GB: 4-of-5 4.9 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.8.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	131075

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