LiquidAI: LFM2-2.6B

LiquidAI: LFM2-2.6B

liquid · Released Oct 20, 2025 Emerging
Intelligence #300 / 557
28.3 Our Score
AA Index #337 / 365
8.0 Artificial Analysis
Input #119 / 557
$0.010 per 1M tokens
Output #119 / 557
$0.020 per 1M tokens
Context #377 / 557
32,768 tokens

Analysis Summary

LiquidAI: LFM2-2.6B sits in the Emerging tier on our leaderboard, ranked #300 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.010 input and $0.020 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a mid-sized context window.

Editorial notes

LiquidAI LFM2-2.6B is a micro model priced at $0.01 per million tokens, but its intelligence and coding indices are very low, making it suitable only for the most basic text tasks.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence1.7Technical0.5Value7.8Content1.5
Intelligence 1.7/10
Technical 0.5/10
Content 1.5/10
Value 7.8/10

LFM2 is a new generation of hybrid models developed by Liquid AI, specifically designed for edge AI and on-device deployment. It sets a new standard in terms of quality, speed, and memory efficiency.

6B Parameters

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

8 Intelligence Index
1.4 Coding Index
7.1 Agentic Index
8.3 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 30.6% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 5.2% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 29.8% Multi-task language understanding
AIME 2025 8.3% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 2.5% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 8.1% Live coding evaluation
TerminalBench Hard 0.8% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 13.5% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 19.5% Instruction following

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID liquid/lfm-2.2-6b
Providerliquid
Release Date October 20, 2025
Context Length32,768 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.01 $0.000010
Output $0.02 $0.000020