What are the hardware requirements for Laguna XS 2.1?

Laguna XS 2.1 requires approximately 66.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Laguna XS 2.1 and how large is it?

Laguna XS 2.1 is developed by poolside, a model with 33.4b 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 Laguna XS 2.1?

Laguna XS 2.1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Laguna XS 2.1 by poolside — VRAM 66.6GB, 256K context

Name: Laguna XS 2.1
Author: poolside

Laguna XS 2.1 is an open-source language model by poolside. Features: 33.4b LLM, VRAM: 66.6GB, Context: 256K, License: openmdw-1.1, LLM Explorer Score: 0.38.

Conversational Custom code Eval-results Laguna Laguna-xs-2.1 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vllm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1

Laguna XS 2.1 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Laguna XS 2.1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1
Model Size	33.4b
Required VRAM	66.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-31
Maintainer	poolside
Model Type	laguna
Model Files	5.1 GB: 1-of-14 5.1 GB: 2-of-14 5.1 GB: 3-of-14 5.1 GB: 4-of-14 5.1 GB: 5-of-14 5.1 GB: 6-of-14 5.1 GB: 7-of-14 5.1 GB: 8-of-14 5.1 GB: 9-of-14 5.1 GB: 10-of-14 5.1 GB: 11-of-14 5.1 GB: 12-of-14 5.1 GB: 13-of-14 0.3 GB: 14-of-14
Model Architecture	LagunaForCausalLM
License	openmdw-1.1
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	〈\|PAD\|〉
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Laguna XS 2.1

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Laguna XS 2.1 3bit	2	513	14 GB
Laguna XS 2.1 4bit	2	396	18 GB
Laguna XS 2.1 6bit	1	343	27 GB
Laguna XS 2.1 5bit	2	267	22 GB
Laguna XS 2.1 8bit	2	243	35 GB
Laguna XS 2.1 OptiQ 4bit	2	67	20 GB

Best Alternatives to Laguna XS 2.1

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Laguna XS.2	256K / 66.6 GB	89693	316
Laguna XS 2.1 NVFP4	256K / 21.5 GB	20828	14
Laguna XS 2.1 FP8	256K / 35.2 GB	9664	8
Laguna XS 2.1 NVFP4 Mlx	256K / 21.6 GB	2057	3
Laguna XS 2.1 Bf16	256K / 67.3 GB	491	1
Laguna XS.2 FP8	256K / 35.2 GB	564	13
Laguna XS.2 Mxfp8	128K / 34.3 GB	335	2
Laguna XS.2 Nvfp4	128K / 18.9 GB	100	1
Laguna XS 2.1 OptiQ 4bit	256K / 20.9 GB	67	2
Laguna XS.2 4bit	128K / 18.9 GB	356	4