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.
Specifications
Canonical IDliquid-lfm-2-5-8b-a1b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorLiquid AILiquid AI
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#422
GPQA
#396
HLE
#305
IFBench
#143
Time to First Token
#184
SciCode
#503
LCR
#473
TerminalBench Hard
#279
TAU2
#358
Output TPS
#437

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-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 2.5 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 2.5 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 2.5 2.6B Free—66K——Available
LFM D166K$0.040—Available
LFM 2.5 2.6B128K——Available

Model IDs

lfm2-5-8b-a1b
liquid-lfm-2-5-8b-a1b