LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF vs phi-2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 September 2026.

LiquidAI · A · Open weights
Params
2.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
187 K
microsoft · B · Open weights
Params
2.8 B
Context
2,048
30d
178 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF phi-2
Parameters 2.6 B 2.8 B
Architecture — PhiForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 2,048
Licence other mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 16 1
Downloads 30d 186,819 177,546
Downloads all time 2.5 M 23.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub GGUF, SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-01 2023-12-13

Download trend

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

1.6 M177 K
LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF phi-2 A overtook B on 11 Sep

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
phi-2 · fp16 7.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF · fp16 @ 128K ctx 18.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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