Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
4.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
LiquidAI · B · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
128,000
30d
257 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF
Parameters 490 M 1.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM —
Context length 32,768 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 4,524,207 257,487
Downloads all time 78.1 M 2.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2026-01-04

Download trend

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

8.7 M188 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-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
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 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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