The best open-weight LiquidAI model is LFM2-24B-A2B (10.5 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) (8.1) and LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) (8.0) round out the top three.
The best open-weight AI models — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable — ranked by intelligence. Open-source alternatives to proprietary frontier models.
The best open-weight LiquidAI model is LFM2-24B-A2B (10.5 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) (8.1) and LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) (8.0) round out the top three.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) (8.1) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) (8.0). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
modelgrep tracks 3 LiquidAI models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by LFM2-24B-A2B. 3 of them qualify for this ranking.