SmolLM2-135M vs LFM2.5-230M-Base

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

HuggingFaceTB · A · Open weights
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
LiquidAI · B · Open weights
Params
230 M
Context
128,000
30d
149 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification SmolLM2-135M LFM2.5-230M-Base
Parameters 130 M 230 M
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Lfm2ForCausalLM
Context length 8,192 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 9
Downloads 30d 1,895,357 148,905
Downloads all time 22.9 M 190 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-10-31 2026-06-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

2.6 M145 K
SmolLM2-135M LFM2.5-230M-Base

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM2-135M · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
LFM2.5-230M-Base · fp16 @ 125K ctx 1.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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