Rocinante 12B
TheDrummer · released Aug 15, 2024 · TheDrummer/Rocinante-12B-v1.1
- Type
- Open weightsCustom licence
- Params
- 12.2B
- Context
- 66K
about 49K words of context · download allowed, licence restricts use
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026Rocinante is a 12.2-billion-parameter text model released in 2024 with a restricted custom licence. It handles up to 65,536 tokens in a single request, but has no measured benchmark scores and only two identical-priced hosts.
Pick this for budget text inference when the licence terms work for your use case, or if you need the specific 94 tokens-per-second throughput on ParaSail. Skip it if you need verified quality data, a permissive open licence, or competitive pricing between providers.
The case for it
- 65,536-token request limit is moderate for its size class.
- Small enough to self-host on modest hardware at 12.2 billion parameters.
The case against it
- No measured quality data: chat, reasoning, coding and knowledge scores are all unverified in our data.
- Custom restricted licence — not commercially permissive like Apache 2.0, with unspecified constraints on use, redistribution and modification.
- Only two tracked offers at identical pricing, so there is no price competition or cheaper alternative.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Rocinante 12B — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Can you run it yourself?
- Fits in memory
- weights load entirely on the card
- Spills to system RAM
- some weights offload; much slower
- Too large
- will not load even with offload
- est
- size is calculated; the verdict could change by 10%
Comfortable fit
GeForce RTX 4090 · 24 GB
Room to spare. 13.3 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.
GeForce RTX 5090 · 32 GB
Room to spare. 21.3 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.
Apple M1 (8-core GPU) · 16 GB
Room to spare. 2.5 GB spare means a 10% error in the size would not change the answer.
Memory use by level
Against a 24 GB card.
All 3 sizes here are calculated, not measured. We hold no measured file for this model, so each size comes from the parameter count and every verdict above inherits that uncertainty.
Check against your own machine → · All 71 devices, with every size →
Or rent it from someone else
Cheapest of 2 live listings. Picked at the widest standard context we hold, within one quantisation slice, so the numbers beside it are a price one host actually charges.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.25 in / $0.50 out
- Context served
- 66K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.25 / $0.50 | 66K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Parasailbf16 | $0.25 / $0.50 | 66K | 73 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
Across the 2 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 1 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parasailbf16 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 35h ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- We hold no measured file for it, so all 3 sizes on this page are calculated from the parameter count.
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsCustom licence, what it allows commercially, and the identifiers you need to pull this model — its Hugging Face repo, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Custom licence
This model ships custom license terms that don't map to a known template. We haven't parsed them, so commercial use, redistribution and derivatives are unverified — review the original terms before shipping.
Identifiers
- Hugging Face
- TheDrummer/Rocinante-12B-v1.1
- Architecture
- Dense
- Modality record
- text->text
- Catalogue slug
- thedrummer-rocinante-12b