# Carbon-X vs LFM3-1.7B (slim)

> Carbon-X and LFM3-1.7B score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Carbon-X and LFM3-1.7B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). LFM3-1.7B leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Carbon-X: C 61, rank #42 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.min.md
- LFM3-1.7B: C 61, rank #69 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm3-1-7b.min.md
- Carbon-X, good for Agents that need a second opinion on DNA variants and regulatory regions on a 16 to 24 GB machine, without sending sequences to a hosted model. Ahead on Reach, 90 against 85; Risk, 65 against 40; Documentation and upkeep, 72 against 67.
- LFM3-1.7B, good for Agents on a laptop, phone or small server that need tool calling and a long context from a model under 2 GB at 4 bits Ahead on Agent interface, 100 against 35.

| Category | Carbon-X | LFM3-1.7B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 65 | 40 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 35 | 100 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 72 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Carbon-X | LFM3-1.7B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hugging Face (HuggingFaceBio) | Liquid AI |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue) |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-11-09 |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, LFM3-1.7B +65: Carbon-X 35 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); LFM3-1.7B 100 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,129 characters), with roles, tools, deferred tools, tool results and the thinking switch.)
- Risk, Carbon-X +25: Carbon-X 65 (File safety 15, safetensors and GGUF only, but the documented loading path runs the repository's tokenizer.py through trust_remote_code.); LFM3-1.7B 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).)
- Reach, Carbon-X +5: Carbon-X 90 (Memory 30, the publisher's Q4_K_M GGUF is 9.6 GB, or 11.6 GB with a fifth added.); LFM3-1.7B 85 (Memory 30, Liquid's Q4_K_M GGUF is 1.10 GB, and 1.10 GB × 1.2 = 1.3 GB, which fits 8 GB, well inside the 16 GB line.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Carbon-X +5: Carbon-X 72 (Model card 17, everything but a knowledge cut-off.); LFM3-1.7B 67 (Model card 17, Intended use (local agents, tool calling, structured outputs, fine-tuning), a limitation (not recommended for agentic coding or complex multi-ste…)