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Maestro1-9B

vectionlabs/Maestro1-9B

Maestro1-9B at I1-IQ1_S is exactly 2,115,771,488 bytes (1.97 GiB / 2.12 GB) — an effective 1.931 bits per weight, not the nominal 1. Its KV cache at 32K is 4.50 GiB.

From the file· summed from 1 file(s)From the file· KV per layer
Parameters
8.8B
Architecture
qwen3vl
36 layers
Context
262,144
native (config.json)
License
apache-2.0

Shipped quantizations

exact bytes, summed from published files
QuantSizeExact bytesEffective bpwTensorsPublisher
I1-IQ1_S1.97 GiB2,115,771,4881.931mradermacher
I1-IQ1_M2.10 GiB2,256,149,6002.059mradermacher
TQ1_02.17 GiB2,332,878,8802.129haffner
I1-IQ2_XXS2.32 GiB2,490,113,1202.272mradermacher
TQ2_02.48 GiB2,658,461,7282.426haffner
I1-IQ2_XS2.51 GiB2,696,158,3042.460mradermacher
I1-IQ2_S2.67 GiB2,864,745,5682.614mradermacher
I1-IQ2_M2.84 GiB3,051,916,3842.785mradermacher
I1-Q2_K_S2.87 GiB3,083,553,8882.814mradermacher
Q2_K3.06 GiB3,281,733,6642.995haffner
I1-Q2_K3.06 GiB3,281,734,7522.995mradermacher
I1-IQ3_XXS3.14 GiB3,369,634,9123.075mradermacher
I1-IQ3_XS3.38 GiB3,626,876,0003.309mradermacher
Q3_K_S3.51 GiB3,769,612,3203.440haffner
I1-Q3_K_S3.51 GiB3,769,613,4083.440mradermacher
I1-IQ3_S3.53 GiB3,789,667,4243.458mradermacher
I1-IQ3_M3.63 GiB3,896,622,1763.556mradermacher
Q3_K_M3.84 GiB4,124,162,0803.763haffner
I1-Q3_K_M3.84 GiB4,124,163,1683.763mradermacher
Q3_K_L4.13 GiB4,431,394,8484.044haffner
I1-Q3_K_L4.13 GiB4,431,395,9364.044mradermacher
I1-IQ4_XS4.25 GiB4,561,841,2484.163mradermacher
I1-Q4_04.46 GiB4,787,334,2404.368mradermacher
I1-IQ4_NL4.46 GiB4,793,625,6964.374mradermacher
I1-Q4_K_S4.47 GiB4,802,014,3044.382mradermacher
I1-Q4_K_M4.68 GiB5,027,785,8244.588mradermacher
Q4_14.89 GiB5,247,756,3204.789haffner
I1-Q4_14.89 GiB5,247,757,4084.789mradermacher
Q5_K_S5.33 GiB5,720,762,4005.220haffner
Q5_05.33 GiB5,720,762,4005.220haffner
I1-Q5_K_S5.33 GiB5,720,763,4885.220mradermacher
Q5_K_M5.45 GiB5,851,113,5045.339haffner
I1-Q5_K_M5.45 GiB5,851,114,5925.339mradermacher
Q5_15.77 GiB6,193,768,4805.652haffner
Q6_K6.26 GiB6,725,900,3206.137haffner
I1-Q6_K6.26 GiB6,725,901,4086.137mradermacher
Q8_08.11 GiB8,709,519,3927.947haffner
BF1615.26 GiB16,388,044,83214.954haffner

KV cache by context

computed per layer
ContextKV cache (f16)Flat formulaOverstated byFull / windowed / recurrent
4,0960.56 GiB0.56 GiB36 / 0 / 0
8,1921.13 GiB1.13 GiB36 / 0 / 0
16,3842.25 GiB2.25 GiB36 / 0 / 0
32,7684.50 GiB4.50 GiB36 / 0 / 0
65,5369.00 GiB9.00 GiB36 / 0 / 0
131,07218.00 GiB18.00 GiB36 / 0 / 0

Compare with

same modality, comparable size

Will it run on your card?

full quant x context sweep

Why other calculators give a different number

A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate puts I1-IQ1_S at roughly 4.59 GiB. The real file is 1.97 GiB, because a quantization is a mixture and some tensors are always kept at higher precision.

Architecture

from config.json
Layers
36
Attention heads
32
KV heads
8
Head dim
128
Hidden size
4096
Vocab
151,936
Sliding window
none
SWA period
MLA
no
Experts
Experts per token
use_sliding_window

Questions people ask

How much VRAM does Maestro1-9B need?
I1-IQ1_S is exactly 2,115,771,488 bytes (1.97 GiB) in weights. Add the KV cache, which depends on your context length, plus roughly half a gigabyte of runtime overhead.
How large is Maestro1-9B's KV cache?
4.50 GiB at 32K context with an f16 cache, computed per layer. Quantizing the cache to q8_0 roughly halves it, which is often the difference between a context length fitting and not.
Which quantization of Maestro1-9B should I use?
Q4_K_M is the usual default. Pick the largest quantization that fits your card at the context you actually need — the table above gives exact sizes for every one published.