LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)

LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)

liquid · Released Jan 20, 2026 Emerging
Intelligence #497 / 557
11.5 Our Score
AA Index #335 / 365
8.1 Artificial Analysis
Input
Not priced
Output
Not priced
Context #377 / 557
32,768 tokens

Analysis Summary

LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) sits in the Emerging tier on our leaderboard, ranked #497 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.000 input and $0.000 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a mid-sized context window and supports reasoning.

Editorial notes

LiquidAI LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking is a free, tiny reasoning-mode model with very low benchmark scores across all dimensions, suitable only for experimental or cost-constrained lightweight tasks.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence1.7Technical1.1Value0Content2
Intelligence 1.7/10
Technical 1.1/10
Content 2/10
Value 0/10

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking is a lightweight reasoning-focused model optimized for agentic tasks, data extraction, and RAG—while still running comfortably on edge devices. It supports long context (up to 32K tokens) and is..

2B Parameters

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

8.1 Intelligence Index
1.4 Coding Index
19.6 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 33.9% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 6.1% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 4.2% Scientific computing

Technical

τ²-Bench 19.6% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 41.8% Instruction following

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-thinking:free
Providerliquid
Release Date January 20, 2026
Context Length32,768 tokens
Status Active

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

100%
Avg Uptime
280ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
98 tok/s
Best Throughput
1/1
Active Endpoints
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