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Edge0 8B-A1B (preview)

Edge0 · Edge0 · released 2026-09-08 · data checked 2026-11-01

Edge0 8B-A1B (preview) is a 7.9B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model (1.4B active per token) from Edge0, released 2026-09-08 under the Apache-2.0 license. It scores 47.2 on the Small LM Index, #15 of 26 small models. It needs about 5.7 GB of memory at 4-bit with an 8K-token context.

Small LM Index
47.2
#15 of 26 scored small models
Likely 42.3–52.0 · from 3 of 6 core benchmarks
Parameters
7.9B
1.4B active · MoE
Price per 1M tokens
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No hosted API on OpenRouter; self-host
Context window
128K
tokens

Benchmarks

Each bar shows this model's score. The tick marks the best small model on that benchmark. Sources: 4 reported by Edge0. How we label sources.

MMLU-Pro Lab-reported Knowledge70.1
Class best: Qwen3.5 9B 82.5
GPQA Diamond Lab-reported Knowledge70.7
Class best: Qwen3.5 9B 81.7
AIME Lab-reported Math · AIME 2026, measured at int463.3
Class best: Apriel 1.6 15B Thinker 88.0
IFBench Lab-reported Instruction following53.9
Class best: Granite 4.2 8B 79.3

Not reported: estimated

What the index model expects from this model's other scores. Not a measurement.

Humanity's Last Exam≈ 6
LiveCodeBench≈ 53
SWE-bench Verified≈ 28

Specifications

Lab
Edge0 (country not published · Other)
Based on
Ling 3.0 Tiny (fine-tune or distillation)
Architecture
Mixture-of-Experts
Total parameters
7.9B
Active parameters
1.4B
Size class
Small
Context window
128K tokens
Input modalities
text
Reasoning
Hybrid (thinking on/off)
License
Apache-2.0
Openness
Open weights
Memory to run
~5.7 GB at 4-bit, 8K context (more sizes)
Hugging Face
2.5K downloads (30 days) · 108 likes

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Run it locally

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vLLM (GPU server)
vllm serve Edge0/Edge0-8B-A1B-preview
Full-precision weights, for a server GPU.

Memory needed: weights, context cache and runtime buffers.

Quantization4K context32K context128K context
16-bit F1617 GB17 GB20 GB
8-bit Q8_09.2 GB10.0 GB13 GB
4-bit Q4_K_M5.6 GB6.4 GB9.0 GB

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