What are the hardware requirements for LFM2 2.6B Exp?

LFM2 2.6B Exp requires approximately 5.1 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 2.6B Exp and how large is it?

LFM2 2.6B Exp is developed by unsloth, 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 2.6B Exp?

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

LFM2 2.6B Exp by unsloth — VRAM 5.1GB, 125K context

Name: LFM2 2.6B Exp
Author: unsloth

LFM2 2.6B Exp is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 2.6b LLM, VRAM: 5.1GB, Context: 125K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/LFM2-2.6B-Exp

LFM2 2.6B Exp Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2 2.6B Exp
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/LFM2-2.6B-Exp
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2-2.6B-Exp LiquidAI/LFM2-2.6B-Exp
Model Size	2.6b
Required VRAM	5.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	lfm2
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.1 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en ar zh fr de ja ko es
Model Architecture	Lfm2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.57.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	65536
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to LFM2 2.6B Exp

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
LFM2.5 2.6B	128K / 5.4 GB	81522	398
LFM2.5 2.6B Base	125K / 5.4 GB	809	37
LFM2 2.6B Exp	125K / 5.1 GB	3203	339
LFM2 2.6B	125K / 5.1 GB	6778	188
LFM2 2.6B Transcript	125K / 5.1 GB	459	171
LFM2 2.6B Transcript ONNX	125K / GB	71	13
LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit	125K / 2.7 GB	16	2
LFM2 2.6B 8bit	125K / 2.7 GB	77	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than unsloth/LFM2-2.6B-Exp.