LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B
Analysis Summary
LFM2-8B-A1B is a compact text model from LiquidAI, built on their liquid foundation model architecture. With an intelligence index of 1.8 and a coding index of 2.3, it sits at the lower end of the capability spectrum, and it lacks vision, tool use, or function calling.
For businesses, practical use cases are narrow: simple text generation, basic summarisation, or as a low-cost pre-processing step in a larger pipeline. The 32K context window is a meaningful constraint for document-length tasks. Its agentic score of 10.5 is low, and there is no evidence of reliable multi-step task execution.
At $0.01 input and $0.02 output per million tokens, it is cheap. It may be worth evaluating for very high-volume, low-stakes text tasks where cost is the primary driver, but businesses should not rely on it for anything requiring consistent reasoning or structured output quality.
Assessed June 17, 2026
Editorial notes
LiquidAI LFM2-8B-A1B is a very small, text-only model with minimal reasoning and coding capability, suited only to the simplest tasks at near-zero cost.
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Performance Profile
How LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B compares
LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B ranks #367 of 380 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #257 of 292 for agentic tasks. Its 33K-token context window is larger than 31% of the models we list. At $0.01 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 78% of comparable models.
About LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B
LFM2-8B-A1B is an efficient on-device Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Liquid AIās LFM2 family, built for fast, high-quality inference on edge hardware. It uses 8.3B total parameters with only ~1.5B active per token, delivering strong performance while keeping compute and memory usage lowāmaking it ideal for phones, tablets, and laptops.
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
liquid/lfm2-8b-a1b
|
| Provider | liquid |
| Release Date | October 20, 2025 |
| Context Length | 32,768 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.01 | $0.000010 |
| Output | $0.02 | $0.000020 |
External Resources
Frequently asked questions about LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B
How much does LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B cost?
LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B costs $0.01 per million input tokens and $0.02 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B?
LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B has a context window of 32,768 tokens (33K).
Who created LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B?
LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B is developed by LiquidAI and was released on October 20, 2025.
