What are the hardware requirements for RAG Gate 27B?

RAG Gate 27B requires approximately 53.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed RAG Gate 27B and how large is it?

RAG Gate 27B is developed by ThakiCloud, a model with 27b 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 RAG Gate 27B?

RAG Gate 27B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

RAG Gate 27B by ThakiCloud — VRAM 53.8GB, 256K context

Name: RAG Gate 27B
Author: ThakiCloud

RAG Gate 27B is an open-source language model by ThakiCloud. Features: 27b LLM, VRAM: 53.8GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

Abstention Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3.8-27b Conversational Dataset:dgslibisey/musique Dataset:thakicloud/chaincheck En Endpoints compatible Evidence-sufficiency Guardrail Multi-hop-qa Qwen3 5 text Rag Rag-gate Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ThakiCloud/RAG-Gate-27B

RAG Gate 27B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	RAG Gate 27B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ThakiCloud/RAG-Gate-27B
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
Model Size	27b
Required VRAM	53.8 GB
Updated	2026-10-19
Maintainer	ThakiCloud
Model Type	qwen3_5_text
Model Files	2.5 GB: 1-of-12 4.8 GB: 2-of-12 5.0 GB: 3-of-12 4.9 GB: 4-of-12 5.0 GB: 5-of-12 4.9 GB: 6-of-12 4.9 GB: 7-of-12 5.0 GB: 8-of-12 5.0 GB: 9-of-12 4.9 GB: 10-of-12 5.0 GB: 11-of-12 1.9 GB: 12-of-12
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.14.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	248320
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ThakiCloud/RAG-Gate-27B.