What are the hardware requirements for Instinct?

Instinct requires approximately 15.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Instinct and how large is it?

Instinct is developed by continuedev, a model with 7b 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 Instinct?

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

Instinct by continuedev — VRAM 15.2GB, 32K context

Name: Instinct
Author: continuedev

Instinct is an open-source language model by continuedev. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 15.2GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-coder-... Codegen Conversational Dataset:continuedev/instinct-d... Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/continuedev/instinct

Instinct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Instinct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/continuedev/instinct
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	15.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-24
Maintainer	continuedev
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.3 GB: 3-of-4 1.1 GB: 4-of-4
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.55.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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