LFM 2 8B A1B is Liquid AI's language model. An 8B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts Liquid Foundation Model with 1B active parameters for efficient inference.
Specifications
Canonical IDliquid-lfm-2-8b-a1b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorLiquid AILiquid AI
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#549
Math Index
#210
MMLU-Pro
#290
GPQA
#471
HLE
#398
LiveCodeBench
#283
IFBench
#387
Time to First Token
#185
SciCode
#509
AIME 2025
#210
LCR
#427
TerminalBench Hard
#399
TAU2
#389
Output TPS
#438

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·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
$0.01$0.02

Cost Calculator

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host LFM 2 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)
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Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hr
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hr
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hr
7 more instances can run LFM 2 8B A1B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
LFM 2 24B A2B128K——Available
LFM 2.5 1.2B Instruct33K——Available
LFM 2.5 1.2B Thinking33K——Available
LFM 2 8B A1B————Current
LFM 2.5 8B A1B————Available
LFM 2 2.6B————Available
LFM 2 1.2B————Available
LFM 2.5 1.6B VL————Available
LFM 2.5 2.6B Free—66K——Available
LFM D166K$0.040—Available
LFM 2.5 2.6B128K——Available

Model IDs

lfm2-8b-a1b
liquid-lfm-2-8b-a1b