granite-4.1-8b vs LFM2.5-8B-A1B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

ibm-granite · A
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
4.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
LiquidAI · B
Params
8.5 B
Context
128,000
30d
172 K

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 4,208,265 171,520
Downloads all time 5.0 M 405 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.2 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
❌ Won’t fit
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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