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The commits are README edits, a config fix and the DSpark link; Liquid's deprecations page records which earlier models this one replaces, without dates.", "/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on www.liquid.ai on 21 October 2026, and Liquid4All/.github has no SECURITY.md.", "Liquid's site and docs link to huggingface.co/LiquidAI, so the repositories are the publisher's own." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.json" }, "answer": "Qwen3.5-9B scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-coder-next.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-Coder-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-coder-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-2b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-2b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-smollm3-3b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs SmolLM3-3B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-smollm3-3b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-spark-x2-6-4b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Spark-X2.6-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-spark-x2-6-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-9B vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-9b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 38, "edge": "qwen3-5-9b", "key": "capability", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 13, "name": "Capability", "qwen3-5-9b": 51, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "lfm2-5-2-6b", "key": "reach", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 95, "name": "Reach", "qwen3-5-9b": 85, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "qwen3-5-9b", "key": "risk", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 50, "name": "Risk", "qwen3-5-9b": 55, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "lfm2-5-2-6b", "key": "interface", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 75, "name": "Agent interface", "qwen3-5-9b": 70, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 23, "edge": "lfm2-5-2-6b", "key": "upkeep", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 57, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "qwen3-5-9b": 34, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Qwen3.5-9B scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "lfm2-5-2-6b": "A small, fast cousin for tool calls, extraction and long-context steps on a laptop or phone. Liquid's own 4-bit build is 1.6 GB, and every common runtime runs it. It always thinks, isn't meant for coding or knowledge-heavy work, and organisations over $10M of revenue need another licence. There are no safety results or security contact.", "qwen3-5-9b": "A small dense vision-language cousin with trained tool calling, switchable thinking and a 262,144-token context, for local agent subtasks. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 8 GB and the BF16 files about 24 GB, in every major runtime. The main risk is neglect, with no file changes since March, no replies from Qwen to reports and no safety results." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-5-9b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-5-9b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-5-9b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-5-9b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3.5-9B scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- LFM2.5-2.6B: grade D, 51.5/100, rank #89 of 100 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\n- Qwen3.5-9B: grade C, 60.5/100, rank #53 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-9b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-5-9b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### LFM2.5-2.6B (D)\n\nGood 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\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 85\n- Agent interface, 75 against 70\n- Documentation and upkeep, 57 against 34\n\nWatch for: Commercial use isn't licensed for organisations with $10M or more of annual revenue\n\n### Qwen3.5-9B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a small multimodal tool-calling cousin on a laptop or a 16 GB GPU, under a plain licence\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 51 against 13\n- Risk, 55 against 50\n\nWatch for: No quantised build from Qwen itself\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | LFM2.5-2.6B | Qwen3.5-9B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 13 | 51 | Qwen3.5-9B +38 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 85 | LFM2.5-2.6B +10 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 50 | 55 | Qwen3.5-9B +5 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 75 | 70 | LFM2.5-2.6B +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 57 | 34 | LFM2.5-2.6B +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.5 · D** | **60.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | LFM2.5-2.6B | Qwen3.5-9B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Liquid AI | Alibaba (Qwen team) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue) | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-03-02 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**LFM2.5-2.6B.** A small, fast cousin for tool calls, extraction and long-context steps on a laptop or phone. Liquid's own 4-bit build is 1.6 GB, and every common runtime runs it. It always thinks, isn't meant for coding or knowledge-heavy work, and organisations over $10M of revenue need another licence. There are no safety results or security contact.\n\n**Qwen3.5-9B.** A small dense vision-language cousin with trained tool calling, switchable thinking and a 262,144-token context, for local agent subtasks. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 8 GB and the BF16 files about 24 GB, in every major runtime. The main risk is neglect, with no file changes since March, no replies from Qwen to reports and no safety results.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### LFM2.5-2.6B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run LiquidAI/lfm2.5-2.6b`, 1.7 GB, or `llama-cli -hf LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF`\n2. With vLLM or SGLang pass `--tool-call-parser lfm2`; for vLLM add `--reasoning-parser qwen3` so the thinking comes back separately\n3. Sample at temperature 0.1, top_k 50 and repetition_penalty 1.1, as the card and generation_config.json set\n4. 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\n5. Leave max_tokens unset or generous, since a low cap cuts the reasoning off mid-thought\n6. Earlier thinking is dropped from the prompt unless `preserve_thinking` is true\n7. Liquid's 328M LFM2.5-2.6B-DSpark drafter speeds decoding about 2.6 times in SGLang and on Apple silicon, per Liquid\n8. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented\n\n### Qwen3.5-9B\n\n1. Smallest start is `ollama run qwen3.5:9b` (6.6 GB, q4_k_m)\n2. On vLLM run `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B --port 8000 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`, or tool calls come back as text\n3. Tool calls use the XML style `\u003ctool_call\u003e\u003cfunction=name\u003e\u003cparameter=x\u003e`, not Hermes JSON, so use the qwen3_coder parser and not hermes\n4. Thinking is on by default; pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks, since `/nothink` isn't supported\n5. There's no generation_config.json, so pass sampling yourself, temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20, presence_penalty 1.5 when thinking, or 0.7, 0.8, 20, 1.5 without\n6. Keep at least 128K of context when thinking, and turn on YaRN only beyond 262,144 tokens\n7. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, LFM2.5-2.6B or Qwen3.5-9B?\n\nQwen3.5-9B scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-5-9b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-5-9b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"lfm2-5-2-6b\", \"b\": \"qwen3-5-9b\"}`. 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