What are the hardware requirements for A2 Coder?

A2 Coder 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 A2 Coder and how large is it?

A2 Coder is developed by nbeerbower, a model with 12.2b 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 A2 Coder?

A2 Coder is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

A2 Coder by nbeerbower — VRAM 24.5GB, 128K context

Name: A2 Coder
Author: nbeerbower

A2 Coder is an open-source language model by nbeerbower. Features: 12.2b LLM, VRAM: 24.5GB, Context: 128K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Base model:finetune:schneewolf... Base model:schneewolflabs/a2 Conversational Dataset:schneewolflabs/denkerc... Endpoints compatible Grimoire Merlina Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sft

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/A2-Coder

A2 Coder Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	A2 Coder
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/A2-Coder
Base Model(s)	schneewolflabs/A2 schneewolflabs/A2
Model Size	12.2b
Required VRAM	24.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	nbeerbower
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	24.5 GB
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.2.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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