LFM 2 2.6B is Liquid AI's language model. A 2.6B-parameter Liquid Foundation Model from the LFM2 family balancing compact size with strong language understanding.
Specifications
Canonical IDliquid-lfm-2-2-6b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorLiquid AILiquid AI
Providers
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters2.6B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#519
Math Index
#241
MMLU-Pro
#329
GPQA
#492
HLE
#341
LiveCodeBench
#317
IFBench
#421
Time to First Token
#182
SciCode
#522
AIME 2025
#241
LCR
#455
TerminalBench Hard
#359
TAU2
#371
Output TPS
#414

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

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Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host LFM 2 2.6B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 6 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
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hr
g5g.xlargeAWST4g16 GB$0.420/hr
Standard_NV8as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.466/hr
7 more instances can run LFM 2 2.6B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
LFM 2 24B A2B128KAvailable
LFM 2.5 1.2B Instruct33KAvailable
LFM 2.5 1.2B Thinking33KAvailable
LFM 2 2.6BCurrent
LFM 2.5 8B A1BAvailable
LFM 2 8B A1BAvailable
LFM 2 1.2BAvailable
LFM 2.5 1.6B VLAvailable
LFM 2.5 2.6B Free66KAvailable
LFM 2.5 2.6B128KAvailable
LFM 40B131K$0.100$0.200Available

Model IDs

lfm2-2-6b
liquid-lfm-2-2-6b