What are the hardware requirements for Kosmos 2.5?

Kosmos 2.5 requires approximately 5.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Kosmos 2.5 and how large is it?

Kosmos 2.5 is developed by microsoft, a model with 1.4b 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 Kosmos 2.5?

Kosmos 2.5 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Kosmos 2.5 by microsoft — VRAM 5.5GB

Name: Kosmos 2.5
Author: microsoft

Kosmos 2.5 is an open-source language model by microsoft. Features: 1.4b LLM, VRAM: 5.5GB, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2309.11419 En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Kosmos-2.5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/kosmos-2.5

Kosmos 2.5 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Kosmos 2.5
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/microsoft/kosmos-2.5
Model Size	1.4b
Required VRAM	5.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	microsoft
Model Type	kosmos-2.5
Model Files	6.2 GB 5.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.5 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Kosmos2_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	mit
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.42.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	float32

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