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LFM2.5-2.6B

LFM2.5-2.6B is a 2.7B open-weight model published by LiquidAI on Hugging Face. It uses the Lfm2ForCausalLM architecture with 30 layers. The published configuration allows a context of 131,072 tokens. The weights are released under the other licence.

2.7B

Parameters in total

131,072

Context length in tokens, as published

5 GiB

Weights at the released precision

other

Licence declared on the repository

Overview

What this model is.

LFM2.5-2.6B is a 2.7B open-weight model published by LiquidAI on Hugging Face. It uses the Lfm2ForCausalLM architecture with 30 layers. The published configuration allows a context of 131,072 tokens. The weights are released under the other licence.

At the released precision the weights occupy about 5 GiB, before any key-value cache. That fits on a single RTX 4090 24GB. The tables below work the memory out for common cards.

Specification

The published shape.

RepositoryLiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B
PublisherLiquidAI
Published29 July 2026
ArchitectureLfm2ForCausalLM
Model typelfm2
Parameters2,697,198,592
Layers30
Hidden size2,048
Attention heads32, 8 key/value heads
Context length131,072 tokens
Vocabulary128,000 tokens
Weight formatbfloat16
Licenceother
Base modelLiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base

Memory

How much VRAM the weights need.

Parameter count multiplied by the bytes each format uses. The key-value cache comes on top.

PrecisionWeightsNotes
bf165.0 GiBFull precision as released
fp82.5 GiB8-bit, near-lossless on most models
int41.3 GiB4-bit, smallest footprint

The cache costs 60 KiB per token at 16-bit, so the full 131,072-token context of one request needs about 7.5 GiB. Concurrency multiplies that number, not the weights.

Hardware

Which card runs it.

At the released precision, with 90% of the card given to the server and 2.5 GiB kept for the runtime. The context column is what is left for the cache on that setup.

GPUCards neededFree for cacheContext it holds
RTX 4090 24GB 1 14.1 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
RTX 5090 32GB 1 21.3 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
L40S 48GB 1 35.7 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
A100 80GB 1 64.5 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
H100 80GB 1 64.5 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
RTX PRO 6000 96GB 1 78.9 GiB the full 131,072 tokens
H200 141GB 1 119.4 GiB the full 131,072 tokens

Serving

Running it yourself.

A vLLM launch line for the shape above. Check the model card for a runtime the publisher recommends.

vllm serve LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B \
  --max-model-len 131072 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90

Questions

The things people ask about this model.

How much GPU memory does LFM2.5-2.6B need?

The weights take about 5 GiB at the released precision. That fits on one RTX 4090 24GB, which leaves roughly 14 GiB for the key-value cache.

What licence does LFM2.5-2.6B use?

The repository declares other. Read the licence text before commercial use: the name alone does not tell you what is allowed.

How long a context does it support?

The configuration allows 131,072 tokens. Whether the whole window is usable depends on the memory left for the cache, which the hardware table works out per card.

Can I use it through an API instead of hosting it?

This page is a reference, and Aiqre does not serve this model today. We deploy open-weight models on dedicated EU hardware on request, so if you want an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for it, email [email protected] with the model name and roughly what volume you expect.

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Hosting

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