Qwen2.5-0.5B vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 22 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-0.5B | LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 490 M | 1.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Lfm2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 128,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 1,171,698 | 201,456 |
| Downloads all time | 31.9 M | 2.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-15 | 2026-01-06 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.6 M201 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-0.5B · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx
5.8 GB / 24 GB