Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
—
30d
1.3 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
LiquidAI · B · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
128,000
30d
257 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 1.2 B 1.2 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM —
Context length 60,000 128,000
Licence llama3.2 other
Commercial use Conditional Unknown
Languages 8 8
Downloads 30d 1,331,481 257,487
Downloads all time 109.8 M 2.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2026-01-04
API input price / 1M tokens $0.027 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.20 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.23 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens — not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index — not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 54,000 not on OpenRouter
API providers 1 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling No not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode No not on OpenRouter

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct $0.23

Download trend

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

9.3 M188 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF · Q4_0 1.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF · fp16 @ 125K ctx 8.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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