LFM2.5-2.6B API pricing
liquid · Budget price tier · released 2026-08. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-10-25.
A support ticket workload of 100K requests a month costs $77.50 on LFM2.5-2.6B; the next cheaper model in the Budget price tier for this workload, MiMo-V2.5-Pro, does it for $76.13. LFM2.5-2.6B has held the same list price since 2026-10-25 and is the 87th cheapest of 165 models in the Budget price tier. Only one host, Liquid, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.35 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.04 per 1M tokens
- Context window: 128K tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Market position
On blended price ($0.455 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 48% of models in the Budget price tier: 87th cheapest of 165. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 72% of priced text models in the catalogue: 87th cheapest of 311. No Arena score has been published for LFM2.5-2.6B, so this page does not rank it on quality and OptimNow's quality bars do not apply to it. 74 of the 165 models we list in the Budget price tier carry one. An unranked model is unmeasured, not poor: the benchmark needs votes, and a recent release has not had time to collect them.
Licence, size and capabilities
No licence is recorded for LFM2.5-2.6B, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted. Its published size is 2.6B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Reasoning, Agents. Filling its 128K context window once costs $0.0448 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
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Liquid is the only host with a published rate, $0.35 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Precision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid (price we quote) | $0.35 | $0.50 | fp8 |
List prices as published on 2026-10-25, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where liquid publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $50 – $78 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $67 – $110 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $379 – $410 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $162 – $178 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $159 – $205 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $69 – $83 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $99 – $105 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $230 – $360 |
Price history
LFM2.5-2.6B entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-25; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.35 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-25. Last checked against the 2026-10-25 snapshot.
Alternatives to LFM2.5-2.6B
LFM2.5-2.6B carries no Arena score, so this page cannot place it against models of comparable quality. The alternatives below are its nearest neighbours on price in the Budget price tier.
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: Hunyuan A13B Instruct (Tencent) at $0.441 blended, 3% less.
- Next more expensive: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct (Alibaba) at $0.465 blended, 2% more.
Other models from liquid
liquid has 1 other model in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- LFM2.5-24B-A2B: $0.05 / $0.70
Common questions about LFM2.5-2.6B pricing
- How much does LFM2.5-2.6B cost?
- LFM2.5-2.6B costs $0.35 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens at Liquid, the host whose rate we quote. Liquid serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Prices as listed on 2026-10-25.
- Which host is cheapest for LFM2.5-2.6B?
- Liquid is the only host with a published rate, $0.35 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens, which is the price we quote. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Host rates as listed on 2026-10-25.
- Does LFM2.5-2.6B offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes, for prompt caching only. Cache reads cost $0.04 per 1M tokens, as listed on 2026-10-25. No batch pricing is published.
- What would LFM2.5-2.6B cost per month?
- With the Support Ticket profile (1,500 input and 500 output tokens per request), 100,000 requests a month cost about $78 on LFM2.5-2.6B at the list price quoted on 2026-10-25.
- Can LFM2.5-2.6B be self-hosted?
- No licence is recorded for LFM2.5-2.6B, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted.
- Has the price of LFM2.5-2.6B changed?
- LFM2.5-2.6B entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-25; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.35 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-25. Last checked against the 2026-10-25 snapshot.
It publishes a prompt-cache rate, which is the discount most often left out of a budget: what prompt caching really saves.
These are list prices. Your real cost also depends on caching and batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and the contracts you already have. OptimNow audits exactly that.
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