What are the hardware requirements for Carnice 9B?

Carnice 9B requires approximately 17.9 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 9B and how large is it?

Carnice 9B is developed by kai-os, a model with 9b 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 9B?

Carnice 9B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Carnice 9B by kai-os — VRAM 17.9GB, 256K context

Name: Carnice 9B
Author: kai-os

Carnice 9B is an open-source language model by kai-os. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 17.9GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-9b Browser Conversational Endpoints compatible Hermes-agent Merge Qwen3.5 Qwen3 5 text Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Standalone Tensorflow Terminal Tool-use

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/kai-os/Carnice-9b

Carnice 9B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Carnice 9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/kai-os/Carnice-9b
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	17.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-24
Maintainer	kai-os
Model Type	qwen3_5_text
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 8.0 GB: 2-of-2
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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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Carnice 9B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Le Gros Chaton	256K / 17.9 GB	235	1
Dot	256K / 17.9 GB	311	1
....5 9B Merged V5.3 SFT Selected	256K / 17.9 GB	45	0
Merlin Agent	256K / 17.9 GB	571	9
FuseLLM 9B	256K / 17.9 GB	574	0
Qwen3.5 9B Abliterated	256K / 17.9 GB	2422	59
Mitra Qwen35 Base Stage2	256K / 17.9 GB	20	0
Carnice 9B SFT Fable5 Glint	256K / 17.9 GB	66	0
Qwen3.5 9B Text Only	256K / 17.9 GB	595	8
...en3.5.9B Fold3 20260509 144751	256K / 17.9 GB	30	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than kai-os/Carnice-9b.