gemma-3-1b-it vs LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 11 October 2026.

google · A · Open weights

Params

1.0 B

Context

—

30d

206 K

gemma licence · conditional

LiquidAI · B · Open weights

LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF

Params

2.6 B

Context

131,072

30d

187 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	gemma-3-1b-it	LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF
Parameters	1.0 B	2.6 B
Architecture	Gemma3ForCausalLM	—
Context length	—	131,072
Licence	gemma	other
Commercial use	Conditional	Unknown
Languages	—	16
Downloads 30d	205,972	186,819
Downloads all time	53.3 M	2.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated	Yes — accept licence	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-03-10	2026-08-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

5.2 M187 K

gemma-3-1b-it LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF A overtook B on 10 Nov

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF · Q4_0 2.6 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF · fp16 @ 128K ctx 18.6 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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