EuroLLM 22B Instruct 2512
By Utter Project · European Union
Overview
Utter Project's 22.6B EU-sovereign model released February 2026 covering 35 European languages with 32k context — the heavy-duty successor to EuroLLM 9B.
When to pick this model
- EU-sovereign workloads needing more than EuroLLM 9B can deliver
- Multilingual production chat across 35 European languages
- Long-context European-language workflows up to 32k
- Public-sector deployments requiring open weights and EU provenance
- Migration target for teams running the 9B variant in production
VRAM requirements by quantization
| Quantization | VRAM required |
|---|---|
| Q4_K_M (recommended) | 13 GB |
| Q5_K_M | 16 GB |
| Q8_0 | 24 GB |
| FP16 (no quantization) | 45 GB |
VRAM figures include model weights plus a typical 8k KV cache and ~600 MB runtime overhead (Ollama / llama.cpp baseline). Add headroom for higher context lengths.
Strengths
- 22B scale gives meaningful headroom over EuroLLM 9B
- Apache 2.0 license
- 32k context handles document-length European-language workloads
- EU sovereignty across the full project stack
- Fresh February 2026 release with current training data
Limitations
- No official Ollama distribution at launch
- Smaller community than mainline open models
- Tooling and quantization support still maturing
Architecture & training
Architecture: Dense 22.6B · 56 layers · GQA 48Q/8KV · SwiGLU · RoPE θ=1M
Training: 35 EU + relevant languages.
The new heavyweight EuroLLM — choose it when you've outgrown the 9B and need EU-sovereign multilingual quality at production scale.
Quick start
# HuggingFace : utter-project/EuroLLM-22B-Instruct-2512Or use the open-source MCP server to query this model from Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client.
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