What are the hardware requirements for LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit?

LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit requires approximately 2.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit and how large is it?

LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 2.6b 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 LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit?

LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2.9GB, 125K context

Name: LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 2.6b LLM, VRAM: 2.9GB, Context: 125K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2.5-2.6B-8bit

LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2.5-2.6B-8bit
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B
Model Size	2.6b
Required VRAM	2.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	lfm2
Model Files	2.9 GB
Supported Languages	ar zh en fr de hi id it ja ko pl pt ru es th vi
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Lfm2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	5.2.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	128000

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Best Alternatives to LFM2.5 2.6B 8bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
LFM2.5 2.6B MLX 8bit	128K / 2.9 GB	60	1
LFM2.5 2.6B MLX 6bit	128K / 2.2 GB	52	1
LFM2.5 2.6B MLX 5bit	128K / 1.9 GB	49	1
LFM2.5 2.6B MLX 4bit	128K / 1.6 GB	42	1
LFM2.5 2.6B 4bit	125K / 1.5 GB	1509	3
LFM2 2.6B Exp 4bit	125K / 1.4 GB	180	1
LFM2 2.6B Transcript 4bit	125K / 1.4 GB	48	1
LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit	125K / 2.7 GB	16	2
LFM2 2.6B Exp 6bit	125K / 2.1 GB	14	1
LFM2 2.6B 8bit	125K / 2.7 GB	77	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/LFM2.5-2.6B-8bit.