LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF vs gemma-2-2b-it

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 September 2026.

LiquidAI · A · Open weights

LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF

Params

2.6 B

Context

131,072

30d

187 K

google · B · Open weights

Params

2.6 B

Context

—

30d

141 K

gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF	gemma-2-2b-it
Parameters	2.6 B	2.6 B
Architecture	—	Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context length	131,072	—
Licence	other	gemma
Commercial use	Unknown	Conditional
Languages	16	—
Downloads 30d	186,819	141,350
Downloads all time	2.5 M	12.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub	GGUF, SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub	2026-08-01	2024-07-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (14 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.2 M141 K

LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF gemma-2-2b-it A overtook B on 29 Aug

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-2-2b-it · fp16 6.6 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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

✅ Runs comfortably

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