whatmodel.sh / LFM3 VL 2B

LFM3 VL 2B is an open-weights language model from Liquid AI, released October 2026. Its published size is 1.92B parameters and a 128k-token context window. Licence: lfm1.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Post-trained vision-language checkpoint. QAD Q4_0 edition is additionally trained and not conflated with original BF16 measurements; GPU serving support still in progress per card. Verified Ollama image-input route requires Ollama >=0.40.12 on macOS.

Model information sources

Release date ↗

No comparable score yet. Its published results are below, but they don't overlap enough with other models to calculate a score.

$ how it compares

Scored LLMs released closest to LFM3 VL 2B, out of 1192 with a score, then more from Liquid AI.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
3GPT-6.1 Terra OpenAI84±1api $2.00/M2026-10
4Gemini 4 Carbon Google83±1limited preview2026-10
7Muse Wonder Full Meta82±2Muse Code only2026-10
14Kimi K3.1 Pro Moonshot AI80±2api price unknown2026-10
18Muse Wonder Meta78±1api $8.00/M2026-10
more from Liquid AI
528LFM2.5 2.6B Liquid AI53±1local~2.3GB2026-07
539LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI52±1local~5.5GB2026-05
570LFM2 24B-A2B Liquid AI51±1local~14GB2026-02

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$ what it's good at

mathnot ranked on this task yet · 1 test
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
MathVista (testmini) lab84.2% ✎▁··▁▄▄▆▇▄▅█▄ beats 37/48—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
vision & documentsnot ranked on this task yet · 7 tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
CharXiv (reasoning questions) lab70.2% ✎▂▅▃▅▅▆▆▅▆█▆▂ beats 57/101—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
CharXiv descriptive questions lab87.5% ✎▂▄▄▅▇▄██▇▂▁▂ beats 40/59—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
MMMU (val) lab55.7% ✎▁····▁▁▃█▆▆▅ beats 21/53—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
MathVista (testmini) lab84.2% ✎▁··▁▄▄▆▇▄▅█▄ beats 37/48—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
RealWorldQA lab79.3% ✎▁▃▁▇▃▇▇▅█▁▅▅ beats 28/39—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
MMStar lab74.4% ✎▃▅▂▃▂▂▆██▆█▅ beats 19/35—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with
HallusionBench lab65.6% ✎▂▁·▂▂▂▃▅▃█▅▅ beats 23/33—not counted yet: no other model in the same run to compare it with

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/LiquidAI ↗

$ published results · 7 results, not enough overlap for a score
testresultsource and conditions
MMStar74.4%Liquid AI own-model benchmark facts · lab-reported

Liquid own thinking-enabled LFM3 VL 2B column, full 62-benchmark table, not category means. MMMU val, MathVista mini, CharXiv val. Published model-specific preprocessing; GPT-5.6 Luna judge for judge-based tests. No competitor columns.

MMMU (val)55.7%Liquid AI own-model benchmark facts · lab-reported

Liquid own thinking-enabled LFM3 VL 2B column, full 62-benchmark table, not category means. MMMU val, MathVista mini, CharXiv val. Published model-specific preprocessing; GPT-5.6 Luna judge for judge-based tests. No competitor columns.

MathVista (testmini)84.2%Liquid AI own-model benchmark facts · lab-reported

Liquid own thinking-enabled LFM3 VL 2B column, full 62-benchmark table, not category means. MMMU val, MathVista mini, CharXiv val. Published model-specific preprocessing; GPT-5.6 Luna judge for judge-based tests. No competitor columns.

RealWorldQA79.3%Liquid AI own-model benchmark facts · lab-reported

Liquid own thinking-enabled LFM3 VL 2B column, full 62-benchmark table, not category means. MMMU val, MathVista mini, CharXiv val. Published model-specific preprocessing; GPT-5.6 Luna judge for judge-based tests. No competitor columns.

HallusionBench65.6%Liquid AI own-model benchmark facts · lab-reported

Liquid own thinking-enabled LFM3 VL 2B column, full 62-benchmark table, not category means. MMMU val, MathVista mini, CharXiv val. Published model-specific preprocessing; GPT-5.6 Luna judge for judge-based tests. No competitor columns.

CharXiv (reasoning questions)70.2%Liquid AI own-model benchmark facts · lab-reported

Liquid own thinking-enabled LFM3 VL 2B column, full 62-benchmark table, not category means. MMMU val, MathVista mini, CharXiv val. Published model-specific preprocessing; GPT-5.6 Luna judge for judge-based tests. No competitor columns.

CharXiv descriptive questions87.5%Liquid AI own-model benchmark facts · lab-reported

Liquid own thinking-enabled LFM3 VL 2B column, full 62-benchmark table, not category means. MMMU val, MathVista mini, CharXiv val. Published model-specific preprocessing; GPT-5.6 Luna judge for judge-based tests. No competitor columns.

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