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LFM2.5-2.6B
by Liquid
LFM2.5-2.6B is a compact reasoning model from Liquid AI. It is suited for agent workflows, data extraction, RAG, and long-context processing.
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About LFM2.5-2.6B
LFM2.5-2.6B is a compact reasoning model from Liquid AI. It is suited for agent workflows, data extraction, RAG, and long-context processing.
Notes
LFM2.5-2.6B is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
Key facts
What we have checked
- Input price
- $0.350 per million tokens
- Output price
- $0.500 per million tokens
- Price on liquid
- $0.040 per million cached input tokens
- Price on liquid
- $0.350 per million input tokens
- Price on liquid
- $0.500 per million output tokens
- Latest version
- liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b-20260811
- Time to first token (ms) on liquid
- 172
- Output speed (tokens a second) on liquid
- 158
- Tokens served on OpenRouter in a day
- 1.2B (for 31 Oct 2026)
- Tool calls on OpenRouter in a day
- 21K (for 31 Oct 2026)
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
- 8.4
- Artificial Analysis Coding Index
- 7.7
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API access
How to call it
Call via OpenRouter with model id `liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b`.
- openrouter ·
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b· Docs
OpenRouter id: liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b
Price
What LFM2.5-2.6B costs, over time
$0 to $0.350
$0 to $0.500
Prices by host
| Host | Price | Over time | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| liquidCached input | $0.040 per million cached input tokensSince 27 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | OpenRouter models API |
| liquidInput | $0.350 per million input tokensSince 27 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | OpenRouter models API |
| liquidOutput | $0.500 per million output tokensSince 27 Oct 2026 | No change recorded | OpenRouter models API |
Usage
How much LFM2.5-2.6B is used
2.2B to 1.2B
Scores
How LFM2.5-2.6B scores
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| Score | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 8.4indexAs of 26 Oct 2026 | Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter | |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Index | 7.7indexAs of 31 Oct 2026 | Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter |
Sources
Where this comes from
- OpenRouter models APIRegistry
- OpenRouter models APIThird party
- OpenRouter models APIOfficial
- Artificial Analysis via OpenRouterThird party
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Changelog
What changed
Price changed
output per mtok: 0 to 0.5
Price changed
input per mtok: 0 to 0.35
USAGE / OPENROUTER
How much LFM2.5-2.6B is used
Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.
- Tokens, last 7 days
- 8.2B ▼42.8%
- Requests, last 7 days
- 765K
- Tool calls, last 7 days
- 150K
- Average cost per request
- 1.4¢
- Price per million tokens
- $0.35 in · $0.5 out
MODEL FIELD GUIDE / SOURCE EVIDENCE
What you can do with LFM2.5-2.6B.
Listed specifications; no EDNA task evaluation has been run. Sources checked 2026-10-26. Hosting routes and app features can differ.
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b- Tool calling
- Listed support
- Structured output
- Listed support
- Reasoning controls
- Listed support
- Availability
- available
- Price basis
- token
- Licence verification
- lfm1.0, open weights
- Context length
- 128K tokens
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not established
- Developer release date
- Not established
- First seen in the catalogue
- 11 Aug 2026
- Listed retirement date
- Not established
Inspect the sources and their scope
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b: listed route capabilities, availability and prices; provider endpoints can differ.
Checked 2026-10-26Source for reasoning controls, first seen, tool calling, context length, input, output, structured output.
Checked 2026-10-26Licence declared in the LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B model repository on Hugging Face, which holds the weights files. Read the licence terms before use.
Checked 2026-10-26FROM SPECIFICATIONS TO YOUR WORK
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