Alternatives to LFM3-1.7B

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Alternatives

LFM 2.5-2.6B is Liquid AI's earlier small agent-oriented model.
Qwen 3.8 27B is a larger open-weight option when local hardware permits it.
Gemma 3 is Google's open model family for on-device work.

LFM 2.5-2.6B

Liquid AI's open-weight 2.6B dense model trained for on-device agentic workloads, with 128K context and native tool calling.

#Open Weights

500000DR: 70AS: 72

Qwen3.8-27B

Models

Alibaba's open-weight 27B dense companion to Qwen3.8-Max: Apache 2.0 license, multimodal image-text input, built for local deployment and small-batch inference.

#Alibaba

20000000DR: 90AS: 95