granite-4.1-8b vs LFM2.5-8B-A1B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 18 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | LFM2.5-8B-A1B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 8.5 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | Lfm2MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 128,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 10 |
| Downloads 30d | 217,938 | 175,319 |
| Downloads all time | 6.1 M | 436 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2026-05-28 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
4.3 M159 K
granite-4.1-8b
LFM2.5-8B-A1B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
LFM2.5-8B-A1B · fp16 @ 125K ctx
39.0 GB / 24 GB
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB