LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (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-Thinking (free) model details · Liquid provider page
Top 15 alternatives
| # | Model | Provider | Why | Context | Input price / 1M | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B | DeepSeek | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.29 Budget | vs → |
| 2 | Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.25 Budget | vs → | |
| 3 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 | Qwen | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 82K Short/standard context | $0.20 Budget | vs → |
| 4 | Qwen: Qwen3 4B (free) | Qwen | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 41K Short/standard context | $0.00 Budget | vs → |
| 5 | AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B Think | Allenai | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.15 Budget | vs → |
| 6 | AllenAI: Olmo 3 7B Think | Allenai | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.12 Budget | vs → |
| 7 | AllenAI: Olmo 3.1 32B Think | Allenai | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.15 Budget | vs → |
| 8 | Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B | Baidu | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 123K Short/standard context | $0.42 Budget | vs → |
| 9 | Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 | Perceptron | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.15 Budget | vs → |
| 10 | Reka Flash 3 | Rekaai | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 66K Short/standard context | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 11 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 (free) | Z Ai | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 33K Short/standard context | $0.00 Budget | vs → |
| 12 | Cohere: North Mini Code (free) | Cohere | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 256K Long context (128K+) | $0.00 Budget | vs → |
| 13 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 | DeepSeek | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 164K Long context (128K+) | $0.25 Budget | vs → |
| 14 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DeepSeek | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 164K Long context (128K+) | $0.27 Budget | vs → |
| 15 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (exacto) | DeepSeek | shares reasoning · similar price tier | 164K Long context (128K+) | $0.21 Budget | vs → |