gemma-4-12B-it-heretic is an open-weight model from Sh0ck0r. It has 12B parameters and a 262,144-token context. At 16-bit it needs about 28.7 GB of GPU memory, which fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest prices in the SAVRN Index. It draws 69 downloads a month.
Runs On
What it takes to serve gemma-4-12B-it-heretic (12B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.
| Precision | Weights | Memory needed | Cheapest setup | Per hour | Also fits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16-bit | 23.9 GB | 28.7 GB | 1x MI300X (192 GB) Vultr |
$1.85 | 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00 |
| 8-bit | 12.0 GB | 14.4 GB | 1x MI300X (192 GB) Vultr |
$1.85 | 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00 |
| 4-bit | 6.0 GB | 7.2 GB | 1x MI300X (192 GB) Vultr |
$1.85 | 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00 |
Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Oct 18, 2026.
gemma-4-12B-it-heretic on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision
Model Card
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Configuration
- Architecture
- Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration
- Context length (tokens)
- 262,144
- Layers
- 48
- Hidden size
- 3,840
- Feed-forward size
- 15,360
- Attention heads
- 16
- Key/value heads
- 8
- Head dimension
- 256
- Vocabulary size
- 262,144
- Sliding window (tokens)
- 1,024
- Model type
- gemma4_unified
Identity and Version
- Repository
- sh0ck0r/gemma-4-12B-it-heretic
- Publisher
- Sh0ck0r
- Task
- Not stated by the source
- Modality
- Other
- Library
- Not stated by the source
- Parameters
- 12B parameters
- Languages
- Not stated by the source
- Revision
- 108d1ece370659a31a61f73cad892711e7e2a480
- First published
- 2026-08-05
- Last updated
- 2026-10-10
Files and Weights
48 files, 71.9 GB in total. The weights are 10 files totalling 47.8 GB in safetensors.
Every file
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| model-00002-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 5.0 GB | ca356ee69c7e |
| model-00003-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 4.9 GB | ebf3d51f05aa |
| model-00004-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 5.0 GB | 360b3ba8bfd1 |
| model-00005-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 4.1 GB | ec82ae7f32d4 |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/model-00001-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 5.0 GB | a813e9d92a15 |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/model-00002-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 5.0 GB | ca356ee69c7e |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/model-00003-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 4.9 GB | ebf3d51f05aa |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/model-00004-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 5.0 GB | 360b3ba8bfd1 |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/model-00005-of-00005.safetensors | Weights | 4.1 GB | ec82ae7f32d4 |
| .no_exist/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/added_tokens.json | Configuration | — | |
| .no_exist/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/chat_template.json | Configuration | — | |
| .no_exist/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/model_index.json | Configuration | — | |
| .no_exist/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/preprocessor_config.json | Configuration | — | |
| .no_exist/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/special_tokens_map.json | Configuration | — | |
| .no_exist/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/video_preprocessor_config.json | Configuration | — | |
| config.json | Configuration | 4.3 KB | — |
| generation_config.json | Configuration | 260 B | — |
| model.safetensors.index.json | Configuration | 66.3 KB | — |
| processor_config.json | Configuration | 1.4 KB | — |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/config.json | Configuration | 4.3 KB | — |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/generation_config.json | Configuration | 260 B | — |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/model.safetensors.index.json | Configuration | 66.3 KB | — |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/processor_config.json | Configuration | 1.4 KB | — |
| trees/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a.json | Configuration | 2.7 KB | — |
| blobs/360b3ba8bfd1a38ee0cb33c78b4547edb7092612b63516d083f1264dc6d78650 | Other | 5.0 GB | 360b3ba8bfd1 |
| blobs/52373fe24473b1aa44333d318f578ae6bf04b49b | Other | 1.6 KB | — |
| blobs/752efb73998ce28a90eb0a1ce0e9a1891e55ec79 | Other | 66.3 KB | — |
| blobs/a813e9d92a15d0958c29a9f3c98f1bf8a52b262d3234cbb06886b37c81e1fb28 | Other | 5.0 GB | a813e9d92a15 |
| blobs/b889adcd78015bf5a0139438c5fb0b7067529a61 | Other | 1.4 KB | — |
| blobs/ca356ee69c7ed3d6670abb9d2f31671d3999d761eb0f7ec81621cb21806be802 | Other | 5.0 GB | ca356ee69c7e |
| blobs/ca875cd6e42132b385f9140cb2f1a99eab79da1f | Other | 4.3 KB | — |
| blobs/cc8d3a0ce36466ccc1278bf987df5f71db1719b9ca6b4118264f45cb627bfe0f | Other | 32.2 MB | cc8d3a0ce364 |
| blobs/d09dccf1b9aee197ef72a6e88a1ceff74b842ff3 | Other | 260 B | — |
| blobs/df4afd629c3e51c2a7ef4e72b967a3f17acbffe1 | Other | 2.7 KB | — |
| blobs/e61bbfe9a31db79ea1e4e557b046f895ad7899d0 | Other | 17.5 KB | — |
| blobs/ebf3d51f05aac402756bf4733a40fdf0b3b629c670c0f085bc0c195febefa6f1 | Other | 4.9 GB | ebf3d51f05aa |
| blobs/ec82ae7f32d4e898d6bf8834f62b30a5b185c71d296830871399acb55bc80531 | Other | 4.1 GB | ec82ae7f32d4 |
| chat_template.jinja | Other | 17.5 KB | — |
| refs/main | Other | 40 B | — |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/chat_template.jinja | Other | 17.5 KB | — |
| .gitattributes | Repository | 2.2 KB | — |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/.gitattributes | Repository | 1.6 KB | — |
| .no_exist/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/audio_tokenizer_config.json | Tokenizer | — | |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/tokenizer.json | Tokenizer | 32.2 MB | cc8d3a0ce364 |
| snapshots/55be9808272ae15883b9ccaee1e7ea651c8bdf9a/tokenizer_config.json | Tokenizer | 2.7 KB | — |
| tokenizer.json | Tokenizer | 32.2 MB | cc8d3a0ce364 |
| tokenizer_config.json | Tokenizer | 2.7 KB | — |
License and Download
- License
- Not stated by the source
- Access
- Open weights, no gate
- Download size
- 47.8 GB
Released by Sh0ck0r through its official repository on Hugging Face.
Memory Requirements
| Precision | Weights in memory |
|---|---|
| As published | 47.8 GB |
| 16-bit | 23.9 GB |
| 8-bit | 12.0 GB |
| 4-bit | 6.0 GB |
Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.
Questions About gemma-4-12B-it-heretic
How much GPU memory does gemma-4-12B-it-heretic need?
About 28.7 GB at 16-bit and 7.2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (12B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.
What is the cheapest GPU to run gemma-4-12B-it-heretic on?
At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.
What is gemma-4-12B-it-heretic's context length?
262,144 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.