# Arete-27B vs LFM2.5-2.6B

> Arete-27B scores 55.1 (C) to LFM2.5-2.6B's 50.3 (D) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
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- Updated: 2026-11-10

Arete-27B scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 50.3 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on reach and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Arete-27B: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #123 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arete-27b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/arete-27b.json
- LFM2.5-2.6B: grade D, 50.3/100, rank #146 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.json
- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md
- All 6359 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Arete-27B (C)

Good for: Agents that want Qwen3.8-27B's coding and tool use without its handling of politically sensitive topics, on a 24 GB card or a 128 GB machine

Ahead on:
- Risk, 55 against 50
- Documentation and upkeep, 63 against 57

Watch for: No quantised build from Nous Research, so the GGUF route depends on a third party

### LFM2.5-2.6B (D)

Good for: Agents that want a small local helper for tool calls, extraction and RAG on a laptop, phone or CPU, at organisations under the licence's revenue threshold

Ahead on:
- Reach, 90 against 50
- Agent interface, 75 against 60

Watch for: Liquid lists it as deprecated, replaced by LFM3-1.7B; deprecated models stay downloadable but get no further updates


## Why the edge

### Reach: LFM2.5-2.6B +40

- Arete-27B (50): Memory 10, the only build from Nous Research is the 54.7 GB BF16 release, which needs about 66 GB and fits the reference machine. Runtimes 15, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run the base's architecture from those files, and llama.cpp isn't credited because Nous Research publishes no GGUF. Builds 0, no quantised build of its own. Terms 15, Apache 2.0. Download 10, not gated. Hosted 0, no provider. 10 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 50.
- LFM2.5-2.6B (90): Memory earns the full 30, since Liquid's own 4-bit GGUF is 1.59 GB and fits 8 GB with room to spare. Runtimes earn 25, with the lfm2 architecture in released llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers, and in Ollama through the llama.cpp version it pins. Builds earn 15 for Liquid's own GGUF, MLX and ONNX builds at many precisions. Terms earn 10, a custom licence that is free for commercial use under $10M of annual revenue. Download earns 10, with no gate. Hosted earns nothing, as Hugging Face maps no inference provider and Liquid's docs list no hosted API for it.

### Agent interface: LFM2.5-2.6B +15

- Arete-27B (60): Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10, only the template says it. Trained tool calling 20, several calls a turn and agentic work as an intended use. Structured output 0 and reasoning control 0, neither is documented on the card. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native. 20 + 10 + 20 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 60.
- LFM2.5-2.6B (75): The chat template earns 20 for chat_template.jinja in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 25, as Liquid's card and tool-use page say how tools go in and how calls come back, and its vLLM and SGLang pages name the lfm2 parser. Trained tool calling earns 20, with several calls in one Python list and agentic RL inside agent harnesses. Structured output earns nothing, as JSON output isn't documented for the model. Reasoning control earns nothing, since the model always thinks. Context earns 10 for 131,072 tokens trained.

### Documentation and upkeep: Arete-27B +6

- Arete-27B (63): Model card 8, no limitations, context length, languages or cut-off. Training data 20, the training pairs and the evaluation set are published with their counts. Last change 20, a commit on 6 November 2026. Responsiveness 0, none of 13 discussions has a reply from Nous Research. Version policy 5, a first release. File health 10, the files agree. 8 + 20 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 63.
- LFM2.5-2.6B (57): The model card earns 17, with everything but a knowledge cut-off. Training data earns 5 for a general description without a cut-off. The last change earns 20, a card commit on 3 November 2026 naming LFM3-1.7B as the new version. Responsiveness earns 5, with Liquid replies in 2 of 16 discussions. Version policy earns 5, as Liquid now lists the model as deprecated with a replacement but no date. File health earns 5, since the files agree but a report about the card waits without a reply.

### Risk: Arete-27B +5

- Arete-27B (55): File safety 25, safetensors only and no remote code. Provenance 15, Nous Research's own organisation, linked from its blog, with a hash on every file. Safety evaluation 0 and agent guidance 0, nothing published on either. Licence risk 15, plain Apache 2.0. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 55.
- LFM2.5-2.6B (50): File safety earns 25, safetensors and GGUF only, and nothing from the repository runs to load it or build prompts. Provenance earns 15, files in the LiquidAI organisation Liquid links to, with a checksum for every file. Safety evaluation and agent guidance earn nothing, since Liquid publishes neither. Licence risk earns 10, losing 5 for the revenue threshold, with no use policy and no change since release. The security programme earns nothing, since no security.txt, disclosure policy or security contact was found.

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Arete-27B | LFM2.5-2.6B | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 50 | 90 | LFM2.5-2.6B +40 |
| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 50 | Arete-27B +5 |
| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 60 | 75 | LFM2.5-2.6B +15 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 63 | 57 | Arete-27B +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **50.3 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Arete-27B | LFM2.5-2.6B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | Nous Research | Liquid AI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue) |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-11-03 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |

## How the scores have moved

### Arete-27B

No score change since it was listed.

### LFM2.5-2.6B

- -1.2 on 4 November 2026: correction

## Verdicts

**Arete-27B.** Qwen3.8-27B with its answers on politically sensitive topics retrained, four days old when read. The training data is published, which is rare. Nous Research ships BF16 only, so a small machine runs it from bartowski's GGUF, and the card documents none of the tool or thinking controls it inherits.

**LFM2.5-2.6B.** A small, fast model for tool calls, extraction and long-context steps on a laptop or phone, which Liquid now lists as deprecated in favour of LFM3-1.7B. Liquid's own 4-bit build is 1.6 GB and five common runtimes run it. It always thinks, and organisations over $10M of revenue need another licence. There are no safety results or security contact.

## Before you call either

### Arete-27B

1. Start it with `llama-server -hf bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, a third party's conversion, or serve the BF16 files with vLLM
2. Use the base's parsers in vLLM, `--reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`, and check tool calls first, since the template differs slightly from Qwen3.8-27B's
3. Thinking switches with `enable_thinking` in the template. The card's own evaluation ran with it off
4. Expect answers on politically sensitive topics to differ from Qwen3.8-27B's. That is what the fine-tune is for
5. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented

### LFM2.5-2.6B

1. Quickest start is `ollama run LiquidAI/lfm2.5-2.6b`, 1.7 GB, or `llama-cli -hf LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF`
2. With vLLM or SGLang pass `--tool-call-parser lfm2`; for vLLM add `--reasoning-parser qwen3` so the thinking comes back separately
3. Sample at temperature 0.1, top_k 50 and repetition_penalty 1.1, as the card and generation_config.json set
4. Put tools in the system prompt as `List of tools: [...]` JSON, or pass tools to apply_chat_template; calls come back as a Python list of function calls, and the system prompt can ask for JSON calls instead
5. Leave max_tokens unset or generous, since a low cap cuts the reasoning off mid-thought
6. Earlier thinking is dropped from the prompt unless `preserve_thinking` is true
7. Liquid's 328M LFM2.5-2.6B-DSpark drafter speeds decoding about 2.6 times in SGLang and on Apple silicon, per Liquid
8. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Arete-27B or LFM2.5-2.6B?

Arete-27B scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 50.3 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on reach and agent interface.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-lfm2-5-2-6b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-lfm2-5-2-6b.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "arete-27b", "b": "lfm2-5-2-6b"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare arete-27b lfm2-5-2-6b`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/arete-27b.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.json

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