LiquidAI: LFM2-8B-A1B

by Liquid

LFM2-8B-A1B is an efficient on-device Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Liquid AI’s 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 low—making it ideal for phones, tablets, and laptops.

Avg Score

25.0%

12 answers

Avg Latency

7.1s

9 runs

Pricing

$0.01

input

$0.02

output

per 1M tokens

Context

33K

tokens

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Other Models from Liquid

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Model	Score	Latency	Cost/1M
LiquidAI: LFM2-2.6B	15.5%	15.8s	$0.02
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)	—	—	Free
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free)	—	—	Free

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Quickstart

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import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "liquid/lfm2-8b-a1b",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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