Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs LFM2.5-8B-A1B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ

Params

7.6 B

Context

32,768

30d

4.6 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

LiquidAI · B

Params

8.5 B

Context

128,000

30d

172 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ	LFM2.5-8B-A1B
Parameters	7.6 B	8.5 B
Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM	Lfm2MoeForCausalLM
Context length	32,768	128,000
Licence	apache-2.0	other
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	1	10
Downloads 30d	4,626,313	171,520
Downloads all time	16.8 M	405 K
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-17	2026-05-28

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.6 M159 K

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ LFM2.5-8B-A1B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

LFM2.5-8B-A1B · fp16 @ 125K ctx 39.0 GB / 24 GB

❌ Won’t fit

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