What are the hardware requirements for Shaktimaan?

Shaktimaan requires approximately 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 Shaktimaan and how large is it?

Shaktimaan is developed by podstack, a model with 0.5b 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 Shaktimaan?

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

Shaktimaan by podstack — VRAM 2GB, 32K context

Name: Shaktimaan
Author: podstack

Shaktimaan is an open-source language model by podstack. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 2GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-0.5b-i... Conversational Dataset:podstack/shaktimaan-ro... En Endpoints compatible Fugu Instruct Llm-router Model-index Model-selection Multi-agent Orchestration Qwen2 Region:us Router Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/podstack/Shaktimaan

Shaktimaan Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Shaktimaan
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/podstack/Shaktimaan
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	2 GB
Updated	2026-10-17
Maintainer	podstack
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	5.19.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
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Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Best Alternatives to Shaktimaan

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Qwen2 0.5B Abyme Merge3	128K / 1.3 GB	44	1
Qwen2 0.5B Abyme Merge2	128K / 0.3 GB	36	0
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct	64K / 1 GB	16	0
Switchboard Router 0.5B	32K / 1 GB	510	2
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct	32K / 1 GB	6324790	572
Qwen2.5 0.5B Abliterated	32K / 1.3 GB	1450	1
Seger Qwen2.5 0.5B	32K / 1 GB	599	0
Temper 1 0.5B	32K / 1 GB	241	2
Qwen2.5 0.5B Grounded Sft	32K / 1 GB	728	1
Qwen2.5 0.5B Grounded Rloo	32K / 1 GB	705	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than podstack/Shaktimaan.