Qwen3-1.7B vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

Qwen · A
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
7.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
LiquidAI · B
Params
1.2 B
Context
128,000
30d
584 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
Parameters 2.0 B 1.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Lfm2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 7,765,125 583,914
Downloads all time 56.3 M 2.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-01-06

Download trend

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

7.8 M518 K
Qwen3-1.7B LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 5.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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