What are the hardware requirements for Ornith 1.5 9B?

Ornith 1.5 9B requires approximately 18.9 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Ornith 1.5 9B and how large is it?

Ornith 1.5 9B is developed by ornith-ai, 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 Ornith 1.5 9B?

Ornith 1.5 9B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ornith 1.5 9B by ornith-ai — VRAM 18.9GB

Name: Ornith 1.5 9B
Author: ornith-ai

Ornith 1.5 9B is an open-source language model by ornith-ai. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 18.9GB, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34.

Conversational Endpoints compatible Eval-results Image-text-to-text Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B

Ornith 1.5 9B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ornith 1.5 9B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	18.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-20
Maintainer	ornith-ai
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 4.0 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	mit
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Ornith 1.5 9B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Ornith 1.5 9B OBLITERATED	39	10421	19 GB
Ornith 1.5 9B AWQ INT4	1	3299	9 GB
...ith 1.5 9B Uncensored MLX 6bit	1	376	7 GB
...ith 1.5 9B Uncensored MLX 8bit	1	490	10 GB
...th 1.5 9B Abliterated MLX 4bit	2	402	5 GB

Best Alternatives to Ornith 1.5 9B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Qwen3.8 Distilled 9B NPU2	256K / GB	3663	4
Clef Flash	0K / 18.8 GB	15722	642
MiMo V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	5705	429
Qwen3.5 9B	0K / 19.3 GB	12207758	1799
Qwable 9B Claude Fable 5	0K / 18.8 GB	1088	115
Ornith 1.0 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	921469	553
LensVLM 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	1840	258
Qwythos 9B Claude Mythos 5 1M	0K / 18.8 GB	37427	906
Negentropy Claude Opus 4.7 9B	0K / 18.8 GB	63	26
Qwen3.8 9B Distill	0K / 19.3 GB	5839	148

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B.