Laguna-S-2.1

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Laguna S 2.1#

Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B total parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 8B activated parameters per token, designed for agentic coding and long-horizon work. It sits between Laguna XS 2.1 (33B-A3B) and Laguna M.1 (225B-A23B) in the Laguna series and shares the family recipe: a token-choice router with softplus gating over 256 routed experts plus one shared expert, grouped-query attention, and interleaved full/sliding-window attention.

Note. Laguna S 2.1 is released under OpenMDW-1.1, a fully permissive license. Use it, modify it, and build commercial products on it. No permission required.

If you want more than the weights: production support, latency and cost optimization, or output indemnification, talk to us.

Highlights#

• Mixed SWA and global attention layout: 48 layers in a 1:3 global-to-SWA ratio (12 global attention layers, 36 sliding-window layers, window 512), with softplus attention gating and per-layer-type rotary scales
• 1M context: 1,048,576-token context window
• Native reasoning support: interleaved thinking between tool calls, with per-request control via enable_thinking
• Speculative decoding: a trained DFlash draft model is available for lower-latency serving
• Quantized variants: FP8, NVFP4, INT4 and GGUF
• OpenMDW-1.1 license: Use and modify the model and associated materials freely for commercial and non-commercial purposes (learn more about OpenMDW)

Model overview#

• Number of parameters: 118B total, ~8B activated per token
• Layers: 48 (12 global attention, 36 sliding-window attention)
• Experts: 256 routed (top-10) plus 1 shared expert
• Attention: grouped-query, 8 KV heads, head dim 128; per-head softplus output gating
• Sliding window: 512 tokens
• Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
• Vocabulary: 100,352 tokens (Laguna family tokenizer)
• Modality: text-to-text
• Reasoning: interleaved thinking with preserved thinking

Benchmark results#

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Benchmarks as of 21 July 2026. Laguna S 2.1 in bold; a dash (-) marks a benchmark a model was not evaluated on. Scores marked * are as reported by third parties: Terminal-Bench 2.1 and DeepSWE via Artificial Analysis, SWE Atlas via Scale AI's official leaderboard, and Toolathlon Verified via its official leaderboard. Full evaluation trajectories: trajectories.poolside.ai.

Usage#

Laguna S 2.1 uses the same laguna architecture as Laguna XS 2.1, so the same engine integrations apply (vLLM, SGLang, Transformers, TRT-LLM, llama.cpp). At 118B parameters the BF16 checkpoint needs multiple GPUs (roughly 236GB of weights); quantized variants reduce this substantially.

vLLM#

vllm serve \
    --model poolside/Laguna-S-2.1 \
    --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
    --tool-call-parser poolside_v1 \
    --reasoning-parser poolside_v1 \
    --enable-auto-tool-choice \
    --served-model-name laguna \
    --default-chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking": true}'

Note. Optional: speculative decoding with DFlash. Pair with the Laguna S 2.1 DFlash draft model by adding --speculative-config '{"model":"poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-DFlash","num_speculative_tokens":7,"method":"dflash"}'.

SGLang#

python -m sglang.launch_server \
  --model-path poolside/Laguna-S-2.1 \
  --tp-size 4 \
  --reasoning-parser poolside_v1 \
  --tool-call-parser poolside_v1 \
  --trust-remote-code

TRT-LLM#

trtllm-serve poolside/Laguna-S-2.1 --trust-remote-code \
    --tool_parser poolside_v1 --reasoning_parser laguna

Note the flag names differ from vLLM's (--tool_parser, and the reasoning parser is laguna, not poolside_v1).

llama.cpp#

GGUF conversions are available at poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-GGUF. Serve with poolside's llama.cpp fork, branch laguna, which carries full Laguna support including DFlash speculative decoding. (Base Laguna support is also in upstream review: ggml-org/llama.cpp#25165.)

git clone --branch laguna https://github.com/poolsideai/llama.cpp
cd llama.cpp && cmake -B build && cmake --build build -j

./build/bin/llama-server -m laguna-s-2.1-Q4_K_M.gguf --jinja --port 8000

# with DFlash speculative decoding:
./build/bin/llama-server -m laguna-s-2.1-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  -md laguna-s-2.1-DFlash-BF16.gguf \
  --spec-type draft-dflash --spec-draft-n-max 7 -fa on --jinja --port 8000

Ollama#

Run directly from the Ollama library:

ollama run laguna-s-2.1

Quantization variants are available as tags (q4_K_M, q8_0, f16, mxfp8, nvfp4, mlx-bf16), for example ollama run laguna-s-2.1:q8_0. The Laguna chat template is baked into the model, so tool-calling and interleaved reasoning work automatically.

Controlling reasoning#

Laguna S 2.1 has native reasoning support and works best with preserved thinking: keep reasoning_content from prior assistant messages in the message history. The model will generally reason before calling tools and between tool calls, and may stop reasoning in follow-up steps if prior thinking blocks are dropped.

Thinking is controlled per request via the chat template:

extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}}

or at the server level with --default-chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking": true}'. For agentic coding use cases we recommend enabling thinking and preserving reasoning in the message history.

License#

This model is licensed under the OpenMDW-1.1 License.

Intended and Responsible Use#

Laguna S 2.1 is designed for software engineering and agentic coding use cases, and you are responsible for confirming that it is appropriate for your intended application. Laguna S 2.1 is subject to the OpenMDW-1.1 License, and should be used consistently with Poolside's Acceptable Use Policy. We advise against circumventing Laguna S 2.1 safety guardrails without implementing substantially equivalent mitigations appropriate for your use case.

Please report security vulnerabilities or safety concerns to security@poolside.ai.