What are the hardware requirements for Moonlit Shadow 12B?

Moonlit Shadow 12B 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 Moonlit Shadow 12B and how large is it?

Moonlit Shadow 12B is developed by Vortex5, 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 Moonlit Shadow 12B?

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

Moonlit Shadow 12B by Vortex5 — VRAM 24.5GB, 128K context

Name: Moonlit Shadow 12B
Author: Vortex5

Moonlit Shadow 12B is an open-source language model by Vortex5. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 128K, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

Merged Model Arxiv:2403.19522 Base model:anthracite-org/magn... Base model:crestf411/mn-slush Base model:epiculous/violet tw... Base model:inflatebot/mn-12b-m... Base model:latitudegames/muse-... Base model:latitudegames/wayfa... Base model:mistralai/mistral-n... Base model:nitral-ai/captain-e... Base model:nothingiisreal/mn-1... Base model:pocketdoc/dans-saku... Base model:sicariussicariistuf... Base model:yamatazen/neonmaid-... Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Vortex5/Moonlit-Shadow-12B

Moonlit Shadow 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Moonlit Shadow 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Vortex5/Moonlit-Shadow-12B
Base Model(s)	nothingiisreal/MN-12B-Celeste-V1.9 MN 12B Mag Mell R1 Magnum V4 12B PocketDoc/Dans-SakuraKaze-V1.0.0-12b Muse 12B Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407 Epiculous/Violet_Twilight-v0.2 Impish Nemo 12B Wayfarer 12B NeonMaid 12B V2 MN Slush Nitral-AI/Captain-Eris_Violet-V0.420-12B nothingiisreal/MN-12B-Celeste-V1.9 inflatebot/MN-12B-Mag-Mell-R1 anthracite-org/magnum-v4-12b PocketDoc/Dans-SakuraKaze-V1.0.0-12b LatitudeGames/Muse-12B mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 Epiculous/Violet_Twilight-v0.2 SicariusSicariiStuff/Impish_Nemo_12B LatitudeGames/Wayfarer-12B yamatazen/NeonMaid-12B-v2 crestf411/MN-Slush Nitral-AI/Captain-Eris_Violet-V0.420-12B
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	Vortex5
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
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	4.55.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	131075
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Moonlit Shadow 12B

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...r Nemo 12B Instruct R 21 09 24	1000K / 24.5 GB	396277	141
Qliphoth 12B V1.1	1000K / 24.5 GB	22	3
Qliphoth 12B V1	1000K / 24.5 GB	26	2
SauerkrautLM Nemo 12B Instruct	1000K / 24.5 GB	1473	22
Magnum V4 12B	1000K / 24.5 GB	1116	54
...g M Claude Opus High Reasoning	1000K / 24.5 GB	80	3
MN Slush	1000K / 24.5 GB	181	32
ChatWaifu V1.4	1000K / 24.5 GB	335	20
ChatWaifu 12B V2.0	1000K / 24.5 GB	175	22
Mistral Nemo Bophades 12B	1000K / 24.5 GB	18	9

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Vortex5/Moonlit-Shadow-12B.