LFM2.5-8B-A1B
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: Commercial use is licensed only for organisations under US$10M annual revenue.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 8.3B total / 1.5B active hybrid MoE built for on-device use; 128,000-token context (config). Free for commercial use only below US$10M annual revenue. |
| Modality | text, code |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | LFM Open License v1.0 |
| Context window | 128,000 tokens |
| Model id | LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use LFM2.5-8B-A1B
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: LFM Open License v1.0.
Quickstart
vllm serve LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B # then: curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "LFM2.5-8B-A1B" (LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Commercial use is licensed only for organisations under US$10M annual revenue.
- LFM Open License v1.0 (LICENSE in the HF repo): Apache-style grant, but section 5 licenses commercial use only if you (or your legal entity) are below the Threshold of US$10,000,000 annual revenue; commercial use above…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is LFM2.5-8B-A1B free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · LFM Open License v1.0. No credit card is needed.
Can I use LFM2.5-8B-A1B commercially?
Yes, under LFM Open License v1.0. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with LFM2.5-8B-A1B?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: LFM Open License v1.0.
Source: huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B, checked 8 Oct 2026.