Model reference · open weights
TheDrummer_Orion is an open-weight language model from bartowski, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of Orion-26B-A4B-v1 by TheDrummer Using <a href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/"llama.cpp</a release <a href="https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/tag/b10630"b10630</a for quantization. Original model: https://huggingface.co/TheDrummer/Orion-26B-A4B-v1 Model details: - Parameter count: 26B - Input support: text, image and audio (with mmproj file) - details - Speculative decoding: no - imatrix: yes - details How to run Prompt format Don't know which to choose? Grab Q4KM (17.04GB) - usually a good mix of size and performance. Download instructions available here Available files: Download a specific file: Downloading using the Hugging Face CLI First, make sure you have the Hugging Face CLI installed: Download a specific file: How to run These quants run with llama.cpp - installable in one line via llama.app: llama-server includes a built-in chat web UI, served at http://localhost:8080 by default. These quants were made with llama.cpp release b10630 - if this model's architecture is newly supported, you'll need that release or newer to run them. They also work in: LM Studio · koboldcpp · ramalama · Jan AI · Text Generation Web UI · LoLLMs · Atomic Chat Multimodal This model supports image and audio input. Alongside the quants, this repo includes the multimodal projector files mmproj-TheDrummerOrion-26B-A4B-v1-f16.gguf and mmproj-TheDrummerOrion-26B-A4B-v1-bf16.gguf, which pair with any quant above. llama.cpp downloads the mmproj automatically when using -hf as shown above; if you're loading files manually, pass it with --mmproj. imatrix All quants made using imatrix option, with a calibration corpus rendered through this model's own chat template. The corpus pairs plain prose with tool-calling and reasoning conversations (corpus source data), encoded exactly as this model sees them at inference and processed with --parse-special, so chat-format special tokens contribute to the importance matrix. The corpus rendered for this model is included in this repo: TheDrummerOrion-26B-A4B-v1-calibration-v6.txt. The imatrix is available here: TheDrummerOrion-26B-A4B-v1-imatrix.gguf. Embed/output weights Some of these quants (Q3K
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | bartowski |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Variants | 1 |
| Based on | TheDrummer/Orion-26B-A4B-v1 |
| Released | 2026-08-26 |
| Popularity | 7k downloads / month |
| Likes | 2 |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TheDrummer_Orion-26B-A4B-v1-GGUF | — | GGUF | — | — | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys thedrummer-orion for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (thedrummer-orion below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"thedrummer-orion","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
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Licence
The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗