What are the hardware requirements for Carnice 27B?

Carnice 27B requires approximately 53.7 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 Carnice 27B and how large is it?

Carnice 27B is developed by kai-os, 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 Carnice 27B?

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

Carnice 27B by kai-os — VRAM 53.7GB, 256K context

Name: Carnice 27B
Author: kai-os

Carnice 27B is an open-source language model by kai-os. Features: 27b LLM, VRAM: 53.7GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Agent Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-27b Conversational Endpoints compatible Hermes-agent Merge Private Qwen3.5 Qwen3 5 Qwen3 5 text Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Tool-calling

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kai-os/Carnice-27b

Carnice 27B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Carnice 27B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kai-os/Carnice-27b
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
Model Size	27b
Required VRAM	53.7 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	kai-os
Model Type	qwen3_5_text
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-6 9.8 GB: 2-of-6 9.9 GB: 3-of-6 9.9 GB: 4-of-6 9.9 GB: 5-of-6 4.3 GB: 6-of-6
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.4.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	248320
Errors	replace

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Hemmingway 1	256K / 53.8 GB	12371	880
Hemmingway 1	256K / 53.8 GB	9089	888
JEV 27B	256K / 53.9 GB	178643	79
OrcaSAQ 2 27B	256K / 12.3 GB	1330	169
Qwen3.6 27B OBLITERATED	256K / 53.6 GB	15137	184
Darwin 27B RSI	256K / 53.8 GB	459	14
Solar JEV 27B NVFP4 FP8	256K / 29.2 GB	41	1
RAG Gate 27B	256K / 53.8 GB	243	0
Mnma Qwen3.8 27b Nvfp4	256K / 18.8 GB	527	11
Solar JEV 27B R32	256K / 54.6 GB	53	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than kai-os/Carnice-27b.