Raptor 0.5

Osaurus

An 8B mixture-of-experts that activates only ~1B parameters per token, runs the full Osaurus tool surface in 6.3 GB, and stays resident on the 8–16 GB Macs most people own.

Specs

Model

Family
Raptor
Variant
0.5
Parameters
7.9B total, ~1B active (MoE)
Weights
Open
License
MIT

Limits

Context
131,072 tokens

Modalities

Input
Text
Output
Text

Capabilities

Reasoning
Yes
Reasoning control
On / off
Tool calling
Yes

Dates

Released
2 Sept 2026

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