What are the hardware requirements for Laguna XS 2.1 FP8?

Laguna XS 2.1 FP8 requires approximately 35.2 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 FP8 and how large is it?

Laguna XS 2.1 FP8 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 FP8?

Laguna XS 2.1 FP8 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 FP8 by poolside — VRAM 35.2GB, 256K context

Name: Laguna XS 2.1 FP8
Author: poolside

Laguna XS 2.1 FP8 is an open-source language model by poolside. Features: 33.4b LLM, VRAM: 35.2GB, Context: 256K, License: openmdw-1.1, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Base model:poolside/laguna-xs-... Base model:quantized:poolside/... Compressed-tensors Conversational Custom code Laguna Laguna-xs-2.1 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vllm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-FP8

Laguna XS 2.1 FP8 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Laguna XS 2.1 FP8
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-FP8
Base Model(s)	poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1 poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1
Model Size	33.4b
Required VRAM	35.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	poolside
Model Type	laguna
Model Files	5.1 GB: 1-of-7 5.1 GB: 2-of-7 5.1 GB: 3-of-7 5.1 GB: 4-of-7 5.1 GB: 5-of-7 5.1 GB: 6-of-7 4.6 GB: 7-of-7
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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Best Alternatives to Laguna XS 2.1 FP8

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Laguna XS 2.1	256K / 66.6 GB	29567	194
Laguna XS.2	256K / 66.6 GB	89693	316
Laguna XS 2.1 NVFP4	256K / 21.5 GB	20828	14
Laguna XS 2.1 NVFP4 Mlx	256K / 21.6 GB	2057	3
Laguna XS.2 FP8	256K / 35.2 GB	564	13
Laguna XS.2 Mxfp8	128K / 34.3 GB	335	2
Laguna XS 2.1 OptiQ 4bit	256K / 20.9 GB	67	2
Laguna XS.2 4bit	128K / 18.9 GB	356	4

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-FP8.