LFM 2.5 8B A1B
LFM 2.5 8B A1B is Liquid AI's language model. Liquid Foundation Model at 8B total parameters with a 1B active parameter mixture-of-experts architecture, balancing efficiency and capability for general-purpose tasks.
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host LFM 2.5 8B A1B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 19 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| g2-standard-4 |  GCP | nvidia-l4 | 24 GB | $0.705/hr | us-east4 | |
| g6.xlarge |  AWS | L4 | 22 GB | $0.805/hr | us-east-1 | |
| g2-standard-8 | GCP | nvidia-l4 | 24 GB | $0.851/hr | us-east4 | |
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LFM 2 24B A2B | 128K | — | — | Available | |
| LFM 2.5 1.2B Instruct | 33K | — | — | Available | |
| LFM 2.5 1.2B Thinking | 33K | — | — | Available | |
| LFM 2.5 8B A1B | — | — | — | — | Current |
| LFM 2 2.6B | — | — | — | — | Available |
| LFM 2 8B A1B | — | — | — | — | Available |
| LFM 2 1.2B | — | — | — | — | Available |
| LFM 2.5 1.6B VL | — | — | — | — | Available |
| LFM 40B | — | 131K | $0.100 | $0.200 | Available |
| LFM 7B | — | 131K | $0.025 | $0.040 | Available |