AI models that run on 24 GB of VRAM

381 open models fit in 24 GB of VRAM at their default quant — enough for a high-end card like an RTX 3090 / 4090. Most capable first; run any of them for $0 on your own hardware.

• Laguna XS.2 — 33.4B, poolside · ~24 GB VRAM
• Laguna XS 2.1 — 33.4B, poolside · ~24 GB VRAM
• sarvam 30b — 32.2B, sarvamai · ~22 GB VRAM
• llm jp 4 32b a3b thinking — 32.1B, llm-jp · ~23 GB VRAM
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B BF16 — 31.6B, nvidia · ~22 GB VRAM
• Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3B — 31.6B, nvidia · ~22 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 30B A3B — 30.5B, Qwen · ~22 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct — 30.5B, Qwen · ~22 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 — 30.5B, Qwen · ~22 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 30B A3B abliterated — 30.5B, mlabonne · ~22 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 — 30.5B, Qwen · ~22 GB VRAM
• Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3B — 30.5B, Alibaba-NLP · ~22 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 30B A3B Base — 30.5B, Qwen · ~22 GB VRAM
• lynx instruct 30b — 30.5B, bineric · ~22 GB VRAM
• North Mini Code 1.0 — 30.5B, CohereLabs · ~22 GB VRAM
• granite 4.1 30b — 28.9B, ibm-granite · ~24 GB VRAM
• Gemma 2 27B Instruct — 27B, Google · ~22 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 27B OBLITERATED — 26.9B, OBLITERATUS · ~22 GB VRAM
• qwen27B Agent R2 abliterated preview — 26.9B, hotdogs · ~22 GB VRAM
• Trinity Mini — 26.1B, arcee-ai · ~19 GB VRAM
• LFM2 24B A2B — 23.8B, LiquidAI · ~18 GB VRAM
• Mistral Small 3 (24B, 2501) — 23.6B, Mistral AI · ~20 GB VRAM
• EuroLLM 22B Instruct 2512 — 22.6B, utter-project · ~19 GB VRAM
• solar pro preview instruct — 22.1B, upstage · ~17 GB VRAM
• gpt oss safeguard 20b — 21.5B, openai · ~16 GB VRAM
• gpt-oss-20b — 21B, OpenAI · ~15 GB VRAM
• gpt oss 20b BF16 — 20.9B, unsloth · ~15 GB VRAM
• gpt neox 20b — 20.7B, EleutherAI · ~17 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 27B Claude Opus Sonnet Distilled NVFP4 MTP — 19.6B, Brian6145 · ~23 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 27B AEON Ultimate Uncensored Multimodal NVFP4 MTP — 19.6B, AEON-7 · ~23 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 27B AEON Ultimate Uncensored NVFP4 — 19.1B, AEON-7 · ~23 GB VRAM
• Agents A1 NVFP4 — 18.9B, r0b0tlab · ~22 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 35B A3B NVFP4 — 18.7B, nvidia · ~22 GB VRAM
• GLM 4.7 Flash NVFP4 — 18.4B, GadflyII · ~19 GB VRAM
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B NVFP4 — 18.2B, nvidia · ~13 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 27B NVFP4 — 18.2B, nvidia · ~21 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 30B A3B NVFP4 — 17.5B, RedHatAI · ~13 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 32B NVFP4 — 17.2B, nvidia · ~15 GB VRAM
• Param2 17B A2.4B Thinking — 17.2B, bharatgenai · ~12 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 27B NVFP4 — 17.1B, ocicek · ~20 GB VRAM
• Huihui Qwen3.6 27B abliterated NVFP4 MTP — 17.1B, sakamakismile · ~20 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 27B AEON Ultimate Uncensored Multimodal NVFP4 MTP XS — 17.1B, AEON-7 · ~20 GB VRAM
• Qwen3.6 27B Text NVFP4 MTP — 16.7B, sakamakismile · ~20 GB VRAM
• deepseek moe 16b base — 16.4B, deepseek-ai · ~12 GB VRAM
• deepseek moe 16b chat — 16.4B, deepseek-ai · ~12 GB VRAM
• LLaDA2.0 mini — 16.3B, inclusionAI · ~12 GB VRAM
• Ling mini 2.0 — 16.3B, inclusionAI · ~12 GB VRAM
• Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct — 16B, moonshotai · ~13 GB VRAM
• starcoder — 15.8B, bigcode · ~19 GB VRAM
• DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite Instruct — 15.7B, DeepSeek · ~11 GB VRAM
• DeepSeek V2 Lite Chat — 15.7B, deepseek-ai · ~15 GB VRAM
• DeepSeek V2 Lite — 15.7B, deepseek-ai · ~15 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 30B A3B NVFP4 — 15.6B, nvidia · ~12 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct FP4 — 15.6B, NVFP4 · ~12 GB VRAM
• Gemma 4 26B A4B it NVFP4 — 15.1B, bg-digitalservices · ~18 GB VRAM
• Gemma 4 26B A4B it Uncensored NVFP4 — 15.1B, AEON-7 · ~18 GB VRAM
• Qwen2.5 Coder 14B Instruct — 14.8B, Qwen · ~14 GB VRAM
• Qwen2.5 14B Instruct — 14.8B, Qwen · ~14 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 14B — 14.8B, Qwen · ~13 GB VRAM
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B — 14.8B, deepseek-ai · ~14 GB VRAM
• Qwen2.5 14B Instruct — 14.8B, unsloth · ~14 GB VRAM
• phi 4 quantized.w4a16 — 14.8B, RedHatAI · ~14 GB VRAM
• Qwen2.5 14B — 14.8B, Qwen · ~14 GB VRAM
• Qwen2.5 Coder 14B — 14.8B, Qwen · ~14 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 14B Base — 14.8B, Qwen · ~13 GB VRAM
• Qwen3 14B Instruct — 14.8B, OpenPipe · ~13 GB VRAM
• HyperCLOVAX SEED Think 14B — 14.7B, naver-hyperclovax · ~13 GB VRAM
• Gemma 4 26B A4B NVFP4 — 14.4B, nvidia · ~17 GB VRAM
• diffusiongemma 26B A4B it NVFP4 — 14.4B, nvidia · ~17 GB VRAM
• Qwen1.5 MoE A2.7B — 14.3B, Qwen · ~12 GB VRAM
• Phi-4 — 14B, Microsoft · ~13 GB VRAM
• Nemotron Labs Diffusion 14B — 13.5B, nvidia · ~13 GB VRAM
• talkie 1930 13b it hf — 13.3B, lewtun · ~11 GB VRAM
• Llama 2 13b chat hf — 13B, meta-llama · ~16 GB VRAM
• HarmBench Llama 2 13b cls — 13B, cais · ~11 GB VRAM
• NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 — 12.3B, nvidia · ~15 GB VRAM
• Vikhr Nemo 12B Instruct R 21 09 24 — 12.2B, Vikhrmodels · ~12 GB VRAM
• mistralai Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407 — 12.2B, SillyTilly · ~12 GB VRAM
• MN 12B Mag Mell R1 — 12.2B, inflatebot · ~12 GB VRAM
• gemma 3 12b it heretic — 12.2B, DreamFast · ~15 GB VRAM
• gemma 3 12b it heretic v2 — 12.2B, DreamFast · ~15 GB VRAM
• Mellum2 12B A2.5B Thinking — 12.1B, JetBrains · ~9.0 GB VRAM
• Mellum2 12B A2.5B Base — 12.1B, JetBrains · ~9.0 GB VRAM
• Gemma 3 12B — 12B, Google · ~13 GB VRAM
• pythia 12b — 12B, EleutherAI · ~10 GB VRAM
• Gemma 4 12B OBLITERATED — 12B, OBLITERATUS · ~14 GB VRAM
• gemma 4 12B agentic fable5 composer2.5 v2 3.5x tau2 — 12B, yuxinlu1 · ~14 GB VRAM
• gemma 4 12B coder fable5 composer2.5 v1 — 12B, yuxinlu1 · ~14 GB VRAM
• Huihui gemma 4 12B agentic fable5 abliterated — 12B, huihui-ai · ~14 GB VRAM
• Apertus 70B Instruct 2509 quantized.w4a16 — 11.3B, RedHatAI · ~14 GB VRAM

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