What are the hardware requirements for Firefly V2.5?

Firefly V2.5 requires approximately 6.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Firefly V2.5 and how large is it?

Firefly V2.5 is developed by Guilherme34, a model with 3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Firefly V2.5?

Firefly V2.5 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Firefly V2.5 by Guilherme34 — VRAM 6.4GB, 128K context

Name: Firefly V2.5
Author: Guilherme34

Firefly V2.5 is an open-source language model by Guilherme34. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.4GB, Context: 128K, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

Merged Model Base model:finetune:guilherme3... Base model:guilherme34/firefly... Conversational Endpoints compatible Guilherme34/firefly Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Sicariussicariistuff/impish ll... Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Guilherme34/Firefly-V2.5

Firefly V2.5 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Firefly V2.5
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Guilherme34/Firefly-V2.5
Base Model(s)	Guilherme34/Firefly-V2 Guilherme34/Firefly-V2
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-16
Maintainer	Guilherme34
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.4 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256

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