MiniCPM5-1B vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 15 August 2026.

openbmb · A
Params
1.1 B
Context
131,072
30d
611 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
LiquidAI · B
Params
1.2 B
Context
128,000
30d
201 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification MiniCPM5-1B LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
Parameters 1.1 B 1.2 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Lfm2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 2 8
Downloads 30d 611,026 201,456
Downloads all time 2.5 M 2.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-05-21 2026-01-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

1.1 M201 K
MiniCPM5-1B LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

MiniCPM5-1B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 5.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 5.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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