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Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker

ServiceNow x NVIDIA mid-size reasoner. Half the memory of 32B reasoners with comparable performance on MBPP, BFCL, GPQA. Strong enterprise fit. MIT licensed.

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Parameters
15B
Minimum RAM
16 GB
Model size
9.5 GB
Quantization
Q5_K_M

Can Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker run locally?

Apriel Nemotron 15B Thinker is best suited for mainstream Macs and PCs with 16 GB RAM. LocalClaw recommends Q5_K_M as the default quantization, with at least 16 GB RAM.

Search term for LM Studio or compatible runtimes: apriel-nemotron-15b-thinker

Hugging Face repository: ServiceNow-AI/Apriel-Nemotron-15b-Thinker

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Strengths

  • ServiceNow x NVIDIA mid-size reasoner. Half the memory of 32B reasoners with comparable performance on MBPP, BFCL, GPQA. Strong enterprise fit. MIT licensed.

Limitations

  • Performance depends heavily on quantization, RAM bandwidth and runtime support.

Best use cases

  • reasoning
  • code
  • power
  • general

Benchmarks

Speed: 6/10

Quality: 8/10

Coding: 8/10

Reasoning: 9/10

Technical details

Developer: nemotron

License: See model repository

Context window: Unknown tokens

Architecture: See model card

Released: 2025-05