What are the hardware requirements for Viper 9B GGUF?

Viper 9B GGUF requires approximately 0.9 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 Viper 9B GGUF and how large is it?

Viper 9B GGUF is developed by rrchat, 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 Viper 9B GGUF?

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

Viper 9B GGUF by rrchat — VRAM 0.9GB, 256K context

Name: Viper 9B GGUF
Author: rrchat

Viper 9B GGUF is an open-source language model by rrchat. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 0.9GB, Context: 256K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Agent Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-9b Code Conversational En Endpoints compatible Function-calling Gguf Image-text-to-text Imatrix Llama.cpp Math Q4 Quantized Qwen Qwen3.5 Qwen3 5 text Reasoning Region:us Rrchat Ru Russian Tool-use Viper

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/rrchat/Viper-9B-GGUF

Viper 9B GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Viper 9B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/rrchat/Viper-9B-GGUF
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	0.9 GB
Updated	2026-11-06
Maintainer	rrchat
Model Type	qwen3_5_text
Model Files	5.6 GB 6.5 GB 7.4 GB 9.5 GB 0.9 GB 0.9 GB
Supported Languages	ru en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q4\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.17.0
Vocabulary Size	248320

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