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Ornith 1.5 9B
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RANKED #200 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #305 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.8 · 101 VOICES ·
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Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX-4bit on Hugging Face (text generation). 3,043 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.3
24 mentions
SAD5.7
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 102 voices in this window
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Ornith 1.5 9B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
9B parameters, a Q4 file is about 5.5 GB (around 18 GB in BF16)
- BARE MINIMUM
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$250 USEDQ4_K / Q5_K, ~35 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac mini M4 (16GB RAM)
16 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$599 NEWQ8_0 / Q6_K, ~40 tok/s, 16k context
- FULL POWER
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDBF16 unquantized, ~110 tok/s, 32k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN ORNITH 1.5 9B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Ornith 1.5 9B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTApple Mac mini M4 (16GB RAM) | FULL POWERNvidia GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~14 S | ~13 S | ~5 S |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~43 S★★★★★ | ~38 S★★★★★ | ~14 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~73 S★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~12 MIN★★★★★ | ~10 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~7.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.3 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Ornith 1.5 9B yet to call it. We found 101 posts but people did not say much either way.
69 POSTS · 32 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · X · LEMMY · HACKER NEWS · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
Grok 4.6
Qwen3.8 27B> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-08-19 · 452 UPVOTESWe have Q3.8 35B at home: 3x new Ornith 1.5 released
We have Q3.8 35B at home: 3x new Ornith 1.5 released
- REDDIT · 2026-10-20 · 148 UPVOTESI downloaded a local 9B model. It insists it’s Claude and thinks I’m trying to jailbreak it by showing it my GPU. 💀
I downloaded a local 9B model. It insists it’s Claude and thinks I’m trying to jailbreak it by showing it my GPU. 💀
- REDDIT · 2026-08-19 · 68 UPVOTESOrnith 1.5: 9B dense and 35B/397B MoEs
Ornith 1.5: 9B dense and 35B/397B MoEs
- REDDIT · 2026-10-10 · 15 UPVOTESComment in r/unsloth
Comment in r/unsloth
- REDDIT · 2026-08-31 · 9 UPVOTESDoes anyone have real experience with Ornith-1.5-9B for coding
Does anyone have real experience with Ornith-1.5-9B for coding
- REDDIT · 2026-10-10 · 6 UPVOTESComment in r/unsloth
Comment in r/unsloth
- LEMMY · 2026-08-21 · 6 UPVOTESLow to midrange systems (8-32 GB) vs. free cloud tiers
Low to midrange systems (8-32 GB) vs. free cloud tiers
- LEMMY · 2026-10-16 · 4 UPVOTESTokenRhythm/NeoHorse-1-9B-GGUF
TokenRhythm/NeoHorse-1-9B-GGUF
- REDDIT · 2026-08-27 · 3 UPVOTESComment in r/unsloth
Comment in r/unsloth
- GITHUB · 2026-08-21 · 2 UPVOTESOrnith 1.5 + Qwen 3.8 27B hybrid runtime + DFlash speculative decoding on Metal
Ornith 1.5 + Qwen 3.8 27B hybrid runtime + DFlash speculative decoding on Metal
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-10-20 · 1 UPVOTESLFM2.5 8B-A1B measured: 0.4 GB of context cache at 32K, and why that matters more than the file size
LFM2.5 8B-A1B measured: 0.4 GB of context cache at 32K, and why that matters more than the file size
- GITHUB · 2026-08-21 · 0 UPVOTESEvaluate Ornith 1.5 and Qwen 3.6 on the dev-workflow matrix (prior rejections predate the current stack)
Evaluate Ornith 1.5 and Qwen 3.6 on the dev-workflow matrix (prior rejections predate the current stack)