LiquidAI / text-generation Open weights Also via API updated 6 days ago

LFM3-1.7B

LFM3-1.7B is a text model for local agents and specialized applications, based on our new tri-hybrid architecture.

Params
1.7 B
Context
262,144
Downloads 30d
79 K
Likes
1,575
Licence: other Not gated SAFETENSORS 16 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 3.5 GB 4.6 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
model.safetensors (bf16, full) bf16 + 256K ctx 3.5 GB 12.6 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub
~ · curl · api/v1
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/lfm3-1-7b
{
  "hf_id": "LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B",
  "params_b": 1.73,
  "context_length": 262144,
  "license": { "id": "other", "commercial": "unknown" },
  "downloads_30d": 78750,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 4.6 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-11-07T06:00:04Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Use via API

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-11-10
$0.08
input / 1M
$0.20
output / 1M
$0.02
cached input / 1M
$0.28
1M in + 1M out
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Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
8,192 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
Liquid · $0.08 / $0.20
Best throughput
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AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
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✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Specifications

Architecture
Lfm3ForCausalLM
Parameters
1.7 B
Tensor type
BF16
Context length
262,144
Vocabulary
128,000
Layers / heads
24 / 16
Licence
other
First seen on the Hub
2026-10-23
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-11-08
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