Alternatives to Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning

Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning alternatives

Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning's smallest published quantization is 4.58 GiB. The models below do the same job with a different trade — less memory, comparable size, or a more permissive licence.

From the file· sizes from summed file bytes

Meaningfully smaller

under 70% of its smallest quantization
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen3-4B4.0B1.01 GiB29—
Qwen3-8B8.2B2.12 GiB51apache-2.0
HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Text-Instruct-1.5B1.6B1.06 GiB1other
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2B0.39 GiB39—
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v18.8B1.97 GiB48apache-2.0
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct8.0B2.02 GiB45llama3.1
ced-base86M0.12 GiB3apache-2.0
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct7.6B2.59 GiB32apache-2.0

Comparable in size

within ±40%, so a like-for-like swap
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
gemma-4-E4B-it8.0B3.30 GiB36apache-2.0
llama-3-youko-8b8.0B5.34 GiB2llama3
Qwen3-14B14.8B3.56 GiB29—
Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct11.2B6.26 GiB6apache-2.0
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct14.8B4.38 GiB35apache-2.0

More permissively licensed

licences that allow commercial use
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-InstructMoE30.5B7.46 GiB46apache-2.0
Qwen3.6-27B27.8B8.74 GiB40apache-2.0
Qwen3.8-27B27.8B8.39 GiB22apache-2.0
DeepSeek-V4-FlashMoE291B76.87 GiB12mit
gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized12.0B6.50 GiB2apache-2.0
gemma-4-E4B-it8.0B3.30 GiB36apache-2.0
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507MoE30.5B7.05 GiB51apache-2.0
Qwen3-8B8.2B2.12 GiB51apache-2.0
Foundation-Sec-8B-Reasoning alternatives — smaller, similar, or more permissively licensed — ossmodeldb