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
1.8
#481
Math Index
25.3
#190
MMLU-Pro
0.5
#272
GPQA
0.3
#408
HLE
0.0
#314
LiveCodeBench
0.2
#271
IFBench
0.3
#365
Time to First Token
0.00s
#152
SciCode
0.1
#434
AIME 2025
0.3
#190
LCR
0.0
#396
TerminalBench Hard
0.0
#377
TAU2
0.1
#367
Output TPS
0.0
#411

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
$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/hrus-east4
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hrus-east-1
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/hrus-east4
7 more instances can run LFM 2 8B A1B
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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 8B A1BCurrent
LFM 2.5 8B A1BAvailable
LFM 2 2.6BAvailable
LFM 2 1.2BAvailable
LFM 2.5 1.6B VLAvailable
LFM 40B131K$0.100$0.200Available
LFM 7B131K$0.025$0.040Available

Model IDs

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