pythia-160m vs LFM2.5-230M-Base
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
EleutherAI · A · Open weights
Params
210 M
Context
2,048
30d
3.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | pythia-160m | LFM2.5-230M-Base |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 210 M | 230 M |
| Architecture | GPTNeoXForCausalLM | Lfm2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 2,048 | 128,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | 9 |
| Downloads 30d | 3,397,668 | 148,905 |
| Downloads all time | 30.2 M | 190 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-02-08 | 2026-06-16 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
3.5 M145 K
pythia-160m
LFM2.5-230M-Base
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
pythia-160m · fp16
0.9 GB / 24 GB
LFM2.5-230M-Base · fp16 @ 125K ctx
1.5 GB / 24 GB