HACKER Q&A
📣 adithyaharish

Best local LLM under 2B paramater and consuming RAM less than 3gb


For my local project, I have been finding a good LLM or a SLM that consumes less than 2gb ram, can you get me any models that would aid me?

  👤 big-chungus4 Accepted Answer ✓
LFM 2.5 1.2B instruct, it's good at instruction following as long as the instruction is short and simple.

Gemma 4 E2B is even better than LFM but I don't know if you can fit it in 3GB.

Qwen 3.5 0.8B and 2B are smart but very inconsistent for instruction following.

If you need absolutely tiny models, check Gemma 3 270m and FunctionGemma, LFM 2.5 230m and Granite 4.0 350m. However those are very stupid models and whether they are feasible for you will depend on your use case.