What are the hardware requirements for L3 Arcania 4x8b?

L3 Arcania 4x8b requires approximately 50 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed L3 Arcania 4x8b and how large is it?

L3 Arcania 4x8b is developed by Steelskull, a model with 24.9b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does L3 Arcania 4x8b perform on standard benchmarks?

L3 Arcania 4x8b has the following published scores: MMLU 66.86. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

L3 Arcania 4x8b by Steelskull — VRAM 50GB, 8K context

Name: L3 Arcania 4x8b
Author: Steelskull

L3 Arcania 4x8b is an open-source language model by Steelskull. Features: 24.9b LLM, VRAM: 50GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, MoE, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 62.1, HellaSwag: 82.7, MMLU: 66.9, GSM8K: 62.6.

Autotrain compatible Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Mixtral Moe Not-for-all-audiences Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Steelskull/L3-Arcania-4x8b

L3 Arcania 4x8b Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	L3 Arcania 4x8b
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Steelskull/L3-Arcania-4x8b
Model Size	24.9b
Required VRAM	50 GB
Updated	2025-09-23
Maintainer	Steelskull
Model Type	mixtral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-5 10.0 GB: 2-of-5 10.0 GB: 3-of-5 10.0 GB: 4-of-5 10.0 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	MixtralForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|begin_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to L3 Arcania 4x8b

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
L3.1 MoE 4x8B V0.2	128K / 50.1 GB	4	2
OpenCrystal V4 L3 4x8B	8K / 50 GB	5	2
...ama 3 Aplite Instruct 4x8B MoE	8K / 50 GB	10	39
Llama 3 8B Instruct MoE 2	8K / 50 GB	6	0
Llama 3 4x8B	8K / 49.9 GB	11	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Steelskull/L3-Arcania-4x8b.