LFM 2.5 1.6B VL is Liquid AI's language model. A compact 1.6B-parameter vision-language Liquid Foundation Model combining multimodal understanding with efficient edge deployment.
Specifications
Canonical IDliquid-lfm-2-5-1-6b-vl
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorLiquid AILiquid AI
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters1.6B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
1.0
#496
GPQA
0.3
#444
HLE
0.1
#294
IFBench
0.3
#309
Time to First Token
1.25s
#400
SciCode
0.0
#452
LCR
0.0
#394
TerminalBench Hard
0.0
#376
TAU2
0.1
#370
Output TPS

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 1.6B VL, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 4 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
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hrwestus2
g4ad.xlargeAWSRadeon Pro V5208 GB$0.379/hrus-east-1
g5g.xlargeAWST4g16 GB$0.420/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run LFM 2.5 1.6B VL
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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 2.5 1.6B VLCurrent
LFM 2.5 8B A1BAvailable
LFM 2 2.6BAvailable
LFM 2 8B A1BAvailable
LFM 2 1.2BAvailable
LFM 40B131K$0.100$0.200Available
LFM 7B131K$0.025$0.040Available

Model IDs

lfm2-5-vl-1-6b
liquid-lfm-2-5-1-6b-vl