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 Sep 30, 2026Rocinante 12B is a downloadable text model you can run yourself or reach through a host, with a licence that puts conditions on commercial use and redistribution. Nothing here measures how good its answers are, so treat it as a candidate to trial rather than a proven pick.
Use it for long documents that would otherwise need splitting up first, and for work you are happy to trial on your own hardware once you have read the licence terms. Two hosts serve it if you would rather not run it yourself. Skip it if you need measured evidence of quality on coding, reasoning or chat before committing, or if the licence conditions are a problem for what you are building.
The case for it
- You can download it and run it yourself, so a host is a convenience rather than a requirement.
- Long documents go in whole rather than in pieces, though reliable recall across all of it is unverified in our data.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores, so the only way to judge the answers is a trial on work you can check yourself.
- The custom licence puts conditions on commercial use and redistribution, so it needs reading before you build on it.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Can you run it yourself?
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.
What is quantisation? →This model on every device we track71 devicesThe Q4 build most people download, on each device: what the weights come to, how much context the memory leaves, and whether it runs. Smallest device that runs it first.
Check against your own machine → · Where to rent it hosted →
Or rent it from someone else
Prices checked 35 days ago — each listing carries its own date.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.25 / $0.50checked 35 days ago | 66K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Parasailbf16Through OpenRouter | $0.25 / $0.50checked 35 days ago | 66K | not measured | No | No | Unknown |
Across the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parasailbf16Through OpenRouter | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
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
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
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 independent board has scored it, 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 does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
- We hold a decode speed for it, but no prompt-processing (prefill) figure, so how long the input side of a job takes is unknown to us.
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
- Takes in, gives back
- Text in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- thedrummer-rocinante-12b