Salamandra
Spain's public supercomputing center built its own multilingual LLM — 2B to 40B, Apache 2.0.
About
Salamandra is the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's family of open language models, released in late 2024 in 2B, 7B, and 40B sizes. It was trained on MareNostrum 5 with an emphasis on Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, and other European languages alongside English and code. Everything is Apache 2.0 licensed with a published technical report. As a research-lab release, its ecosystem of fine-tunes and tooling is smaller than commercial open models.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Technical-report benchmarks vs. similar-size open models; community third-party evals limited.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Released late 2024 by Barcelona Supercomputing Center; Apache-2.0; technical report published; European-language focus; smaller fine-tune ecosystem. License: Apache-2.0..
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · Released late 2024 by Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- · Apache-2.0; technical report published
- · European-language focus; smaller fine-tune ecosystem