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LFM3 1.7B
Run a small text assistant on your own hardware, connect it to tools or adapt it to your business vocabulary.
Released 2026-10-27 · First reviewed 2026-10-28 · Checked 2026-11-03.
We still need comparable independent tests. You can compare the confirmed features and limits below, but we cannot yet give this version an Agent Fit or Practical Value rating. Try it on your hardware and tasks before relying on it.
What you can use today
You download the model files and supply the hardware and software to run them. Capacity is the amount of information a request can contain; settings and available memory can limit what fits.
Exact download ID: LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B. The publisher recommends it for local assistants and structured answers, but not complex coding agents or difficult multi-step reasoning.
Downloadable under the LFM Open License v1.0, which limits commercial use by revenue. Review the full license for your organization. Use the model’s matching software and preprocessing; quality and device-speed claims on its card are publisher tests.
The text model supports 262,144 tokens across input and output.
Local costs depend on your hardware. Liquid now separately lists hosted input $0.08, cached input $0.02 and output $0.20 per million tokens; those prices do not measure the cost of running this download.
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