Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs LFM2.5-8B-A1B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct | 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 | 12,117,940 | 171,520 |
| Downloads all time | 165.8 M | 405 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2026-05-28 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
12.2 M159 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
LFM2.5-8B-A1B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16
18.4 GB / 24 GB
LFM2.5-8B-A1B · fp16 @ 125K ctx
39.0 GB / 24 GB