LFM2.5-VL-3B

by Liquid AI

LFM2.5-VL-3B is a model from Liquid AI, released on August 12, 2026. It ranks #181 of 220 models by Intelligence Score with a score of 3.2.

LFM2.5-VL-3B is Liquid AI's open-weight vision-language model (~3.12B parameters; HF safetensors total 3,123,483,888) for on-device and edge image-text→text. Non-reasoning: answers directly for low latency. Builds on the LFM2.5-2.6B language backbone with a SigLIP2 400M NaFlex vision encoder; improves screen/UI understanding, grounding, function calling, and multi-image input over LFM2-VL-3B. Pre-trained on ~34T tokens; 128K vocabulary; 32,768-token context. Day-one support for llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX. License: LFM Open License v1.0 (lfm1.0). Catalog benches include MMStar, MME (Liquid 0–100 normalize of 0–2800), RealWorldQA, SimpleVQA, MMBench-V1.1, MM-IF-Eval, MathVista-Mini, MMMU-Pro, MMMU (val), ChartQA, DocVQA, OCRBench, OCRBench-V2 (en), TextVQA, RefCOCO-avg, BLINK, MuirBench, HallusionBench, POPE, IFEval, IFBench, Multi-IF, and BFCL-v4. No catalog id for ScreenSpot-v2 (80.7 avg), CountBenchQA, SEED-Bench (image), MMMB, Multilingual MMBench, LogicVista, InfographicVQA, or ToolSandbox — recorded here only. Sources: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-vl-3b · https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-VL-3B. No hosted provider pricing row (self-host open weights; OpenRouter has only liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free for the text sibling).

Key specs

ProviderLiquid AI
Release date2026-08-12
Licenseopen weights
Intelligence Score3.2

Quick answers

Is LFM2.5-VL-3B open source?

Yes. LFM2.5-VL-3B is an open model released under the open weights license.

When was LFM2.5-VL-3B released?

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B on August 12, 2026.

How does LFM2.5-VL-3B compare to Claude Opus 5.5 (Reasoning)?

LFM2.5-VL-3B scores 3.2 on the Intelligence Score versus 60.5 for Claude Opus 5.5 (Reasoning), the current #1.

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