LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) alternatives
Ranked by capability overlap, similar context window, and similar price tier. Cross-vendor options are weighted higher than same-provider alternatives.
See also: LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) model details · Liquid provider page
Top 15 alternatives
| # | Model | Provider | Why | Context | Input price / 1M | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B | DeepSeek | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.29 Budget | vs → |
| 2 | Google: Gemma 3 12B (free) | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.00 Budget | vs → | |
| 3 | Google: Gemma 3 4B (free) | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.00 Budget | vs → | |
| 4 | Google: Gemma 3n 4B | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.06 Budget | vs → | |
| 5 | Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.30 Budget | vs → | |
| 6 | Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | similar price tier · similar context window | 66K Short/standard context | $0.25 Budget | vs → | |
| 7 | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | Meta | similar price tier · similar context window | 60K Short/standard context | $0.03 Budget | vs → |
| 8 | Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | Qwen | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 9 | Qwen: Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct | Qwen | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.03 Budget | vs → |
| 10 | Qwen: Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct | Qwen | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.20 Budget | vs → |
| 11 | Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free) | Meta | similar price tier · similar context window | 66K Short/standard context | $0.00 Budget | vs → |
| 12 | Mistral: Mistral Small 3 | Mistral AI | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.05 Budget | vs → |
| 13 | Mistral: Mistral Small Creative | Mistral AI | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 14 | Mistral: Saba | Mistral AI | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.20 Budget | vs → |
| 15 | Mistral: Voxtral Small 24B 2507 | Mistral AI | similar price tier · similar context window | 33K Short/standard context | $0.10 Budget | vs → |