LFM2.5-24B-A2B
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Pricing · OpenRouter
Dated cached OpenRouter rates in USD per 1M tokens. Open the dashboard for live enhancements. Per-metric endpoint minima can refer to different providers; they are not a guaranteed combined rate from one endpoint.
| Tier | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached input / 1M | Cache write / 1M | Date & source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default | $0.05 | $0.7 | $0.025 | — | 2026-10-20 · OpenRouter source |
Recorded pricing notes
Verified Liquid FP8 endpoint: status 0, uptime 100% (30m, 5m, 1d). Min-healthy endpoint minima; 128,000 context / 8,192 output. No contributor sibling found in the all-model check. Keyless throughput/latency absent; no speed estimate. Native model context is 131,072 tokens.; min-healthy endpoint minima 2026-10-14; min-healthy endpoint minima 2026-10-15; min-healthy endpoint minima 2026-10-16; min-healthy endpoint minima 2026-10-17; min-healthy endpoint minima 2026-10-18; min-healthy endpoint minima 2026-10-19; min-healthy endpoint minima 2026-10-20
Official / vendor benchmarks
Default headline records. Own-vendor, peer-vendor and third-party provenance remain visible in evidence; configurations may differ.
| Benchmark / evaluator | Headline score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| AutomationBench | 27.7%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources27.7% · raw 27.69 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, max_turns 50 per official HF card, output bounded by context. Version/public split not stated; do not infer v1.0.6 or AA private reward configuration. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| BFCL v4 (overall) | 65%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources65% · raw 65.01 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.001, maximum output 4,096 tokens; overall as labeled, not multi-turn-only. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| ToolSandbox | 80.7%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources80.7% · raw 80.71 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0, maximum output 1,024 tokens; GPT-4o-2024-08-06 user simulator at temperature 0 and maximum 1,024 tokens. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| LiveClaw | 48.1%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources48.1% · raw 48.09 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM default temperature 1.0 (agent sets no temperature), maximum output 8,192 tokens; exact suite revision not stated. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| PinchBench | 83.2%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources83.2% · raw 83.18 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Official card groups unlisted evaluations under temperature 0.6 and maximum output 32,768 tokens; specific PinchBench harness settings/revision are not detailed. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| τ³-bench Banking | 8%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources8% · raw 8.04 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Official GPT-5.2 user model at low reasoning effort, default BM25 retrieval; agent temperature 0, maximum output 16,384 tokens per turn. The user simulator effort is not the evaluated model effort. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| WebArena-Verified | 26.8%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources26.8% · raw 26.75 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, max_turns 40 browser actions; output bounded by context. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| GPQA Diamond | 74.4%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources74.4% · raw 74.42 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.6, maximum output 32,768 tokens. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| AA-Omniscience (Liquid evaluation) | -24.9unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources-24.9 · raw -24.9 index Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Raw signed vendor-reported AA-Omniscience score, not accuracy or non-hallucination rate and not an independently measured AA result. Split, normalization and exact scoring formula are not specified; do not blend with explicitly public-split scores. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| HLE (Liquid evaluation) | 7.4%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources7.4% · raw 7.4 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Source labels this HLE and groups it with temperature 0.6 / maximum output 32,768 tokens. Exact subset and tool protocol are not explicitly documented, so keep separate from full/text-only/with-tools HLE configurations. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| IFEval | 96.8%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources96.8% · raw 96.75 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.6, maximum output 32,768 tokens. Strict/loose aggregation is not specified. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| IFBench | 74.7%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources74.7% · raw 74.69 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.6, maximum output 32,768 tokens; source labels IFBench without a strict/loose qualifier. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| Multi-IF | 84.4%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources84.4% · raw 84.38 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.6, maximum output 32,768 tokens; exact language/turn aggregation unpublished. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| MATH-500 | 96%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources96% · raw 96.04 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.6, maximum output 32,768 tokens; sample aggregation unpublished, so do not assert pass@1 or average count. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| SWE-bench Verified (OpenCode) | 51%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources51% · raw 51 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. OpenCode agent harness explicitly named; temperature 0.6 and maximum output 32,768 tokens per card catch-all settings. Keep separate from other SWE agent harness configurations. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| SciCode | 32.7%unknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources32.7% · raw 32.71 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. vLLM; temperature 0.6, maximum output 32,768 tokens; vendor measurement, not independent AA intelligence-index data. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
| Apple M5 Max prefill (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 4318 tok/sunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources4318 tok/s · raw 4318 tok/s Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; Apple M5 Max, llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. prefill transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| Apple M5 Max decode (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 184 tok/sunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources184 tok/s · raw 184 tok/s Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; Apple M5 Max, llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. decode transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| Apple M5 Max memory (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 15 GBunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources15 GB · raw 15 GB Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; Apple M5 Max, llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. memory transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| Mac Studio (chip unspecified) prefill (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 2451 tok/sunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources2451 tok/s · raw 2451 tok/s Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; Mac Studio (chip unspecified), llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. prefill transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| Mac Studio (chip unspecified) decode (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 146 tok/sunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources146 tok/s · raw 146 tok/s Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; Mac Studio (chip unspecified), llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. decode transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| Mac Studio (chip unspecified) memory (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 16 GBunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources16 GB · raw 16 GB Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; Mac Studio (chip unspecified), llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. memory transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 prefill (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 1641 tok/sunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources1641 tok/s · raw 1641 tok/s Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. prefill transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 decode (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 114 tok/sunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources114 tok/s · raw 114 tok/s Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. decode transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 memory (Liquid, Q4_K_M) | 16 GBunknown effort | All 1 recorded result & sources16 GB · raw 16 GB Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI vendor evaluation of the released reasoning-only checkpoint. Pipette; AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, llama.cpp, Q4_K_M quantization, 4K-token input. memory transcribed from the labeled official figure. Device reasoning budget/concurrency not detailed. No cloud API speed inference. Evaluation date unpublished; source checked 13 October 2026. No selectable effort level is specified. https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B/resolve/main/figures/LFM2.5-24B-A2B-edge-inference.png |
| B300 aggregate output throughput (Liquid, SGLang) | 21070 tok/sunknown effort | All 11 recorded results & sources21070 tok/s · raw 21070 tok/s Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 1024. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b17940 tok/s · raw 17940 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 512. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b13890 tok/s · raw 13890 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 256. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b9659 tok/s · raw 9659 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 128. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b6131 tok/s · raw 6131 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 64. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b3794 tok/s · raw 3794 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 32. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b2347 tok/s · raw 2347 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 16. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b1484 tok/s · raw 1484 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 8. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b887.7 tok/s · raw 887.7 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 4. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b538.1 tok/s · raw 538.1 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 2. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b341.5 tok/s · raw 341.5 tok/s Alternative · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-10-13 Harness: Liquid AI, one NVIDIA B300, BF16, SGLang 0.5.22; 1,024 input tokens / up to 256 output tokens, sustained concurrency 1. Total output tokens divided by wall time, continuously replacing completed requests. torch.compile where SGLang allows; default settings with per-model serving adjustments. Exact published value from official interactive Figure 5 tooltip/accessible table, not digitized pixels. Peak 1,024-concurrency result is headline; ten alternatives retained. Reasoning budget unspecified; checked 13 October 2026, evaluation date unpublished. https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b |
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