What are the hardware requirements for Aurora 12B?

Aurora 12B requires approximately 24.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Aurora 12B and how large is it?

Aurora 12B is developed by XeroCodes, 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 Aurora 12B?

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

Aurora 12B by XeroCodes — VRAM 24.5GB

Name: Aurora 12B
Author: XeroCodes

Aurora 12B is an open-source language model by XeroCodes. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Adapter Base model:adapter:mistralai/m... Base model:mistralai/mistral-n... Conversational Dataset:iamtarun/code instruct... En Finetuned Instruct Lora Mistral Peft Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/XeroCodes/aurora-12b

Aurora 12B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Aurora 12B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/XeroCodes/aurora-12b
Base Model(s)	Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407 mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-04-07
Maintainer	XeroCodes
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	0.2 GB 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
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Adapter
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	1024000
Is Biased	none
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
PEFT Type	LORA
LoRA Model	Yes
PEFT Target Modules	up_proj\|o_proj\|q_proj\|k_proj\|gate_proj\|v_proj\|down_proj
LoRA Alpha	16
LoRA Dropout	0
R Param	16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Aurora 12B

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Teleste Learner 12B	0K / 0.3 GB	250	1
Noodles 12B	0K / 3.6 GB	5	0
Control 12B R3 Lora	0K / 2.9 GB	6	0
Control 12B R3 Lora	0K / 2.9 GB	5	0
Aura NeMo 12B	0K / 1.8 GB	6	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than XeroCodes/aurora-12b.