LFM 2.5 1.2B Instruct is Liquid AI's language model with a 33K context window. A compact 1.2B-parameter instruction-tuned Liquid Foundation Model optimized for fast on-device chat and edge inference.
Specifications
Canonical IDliquid-lfm-2-5-1-2b-instruct
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorLiquid AILiquid AI
Context Window33K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters1.2B
Release Date · 8 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#524
GPQA
#483
HLE
#301
IFBench
#227
Time to First Token
#185
SciCode
#528
LCR
#461
TerminalBench Hard
#396
TAU2
#385
Output TPS
#408

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
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 1.2B Instruct, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 3 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/hr
Standard_NV4ads_V710_v5AzureAMD Radeon Pro V710 (24GB)4 GB$0.333/hr
g5g.xlargeAWST4g16 GB$0.420/hr
7 more instances can run LFM 2.5 1.2B Instruct
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
LFM 2 24B A2B128K——Available
LFM 2.5 1.2B Instruct33K——Current
LFM 2.5 1.2B Thinking33K——Available
LFM 2.5 8B A1B————Available
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 2.5 2.6B128K——Available
LFM 40B—131K$0.100$0.200Available

Model IDs

lfm2-5-1-2b-instruct
liquid-lfm-2-5-1-2b-instruct
liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-instruct:free