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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": "Qwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against LFM2.5-2.6B's 51.5 (D), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. 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Running it yourself costs the hardware, 55.6 GB for the BF16 files and 18 GB for Ollama's default build (checked 2026-10-20).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-20).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-20" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "fp8", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 70, "interface": 70, "reach": 90, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 36 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A dense cousin for coding and agent work with image and video input that runs almost anywhere. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 22 GB, and five providers host it for agents without the hardware. The main risk is that nobody at Alibaba answers, there are no safety results or agent guidance, and the tool format is only in the template.", "bestFor": "Agents that want a capable open model with vision on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac, with the widest runtime support and a plain licence.", "strengths": [ "Released support in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "Ollama's 4-bit build fits in about 22 GB", "Plain Apache 2.0 with no gate, no account and no use policy", "Safetensors only, with a checksum on every file in the publisher's own organisation", "Thinking that turns off or is budgeted per request, several tool calls a turn and 262,144 tokens of native context", "Five inference providers host it today" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety results, prompt-injection guidance or security contact", "Tool calling and structured output aren't documented by Alibaba", "No training data, limitations, languages or knowledge cut-off on the card", "No reply from Qwen to any of the 40 most recent discussions, including template reports", "Only one quantised build from Alibaba, and no change to the files since 14 August 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `ollama run qwen3.8`, about 18 GB of files", "On our reference machine use BF16 with `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B --max-model-len 131072 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`, since FP8 on gfx1151 isn't documented", "Use the qwen3_coder tool parser, SGLang's cookbook says the Hermes parser leaves its calls unparsed", "Thinking is on by default, pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks, and read the reasoning from `reasoning_content`", "`reasoning_effort` takes xhigh (default), medium or low, and any other value makes the template raise an error", "Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 when thinking, temperature 0.7, top_p 0.8 and presence_penalty 1.5 without", "Preserved thinking keeps earlier reasoning in the context unless `preserve_thinking` is false, which grows long agent sessions", "Turn on YaRN only beyond 262,144 tokens, the card warns static YaRN can cost quality on short texts", "Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 70, "interface": 70, "reach": 90, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 49, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "lastMoved": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run qwen3.8\n# or, with vLLM's recipe:\nvllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"qwen3.8\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/qwen3-8-27b" }, "sameCompany": [ "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "qwen3-embedding-4b", "qwen3-embedding-8b", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "qwen3-vl-embedding-8b", "qwen3-asr-0-6b", "qwen3-asr-1-7b", "qwen3-tts-1-7b-customvoice", "qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507", "qwen3-4b-instruct-2507", "qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-coder-next", "qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-2b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-32b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-4b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-8b-instruct", "qwen3-5-0-8b", "qwen3-5-122b-a10b", "qwen3-5-2b", "qwen3-5-397b-a17b", "qwen3-5-4b", "qwen3-5-9b", "qwen3-6-27b", "qwen3-6-35b-a3b", "qwen3-8-flash-next" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "params": "27B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Dense vision-language model for coding and agents, text, images and video in, tool calling and adjustable reasoning effort.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "ollama qwen3.8:latest", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/qwen3.8:latest", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 18, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Q4_K_M with a BF16 vision projector (digest aaee06c39dcf). 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-0-8b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-0.8B vs Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-0-8b-vs-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-122b-a10b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-122B-A10B vs Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-122b-a10b-vs-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-2b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-2B vs Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-2b-vs-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-397b-a17b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-397B-A17B vs Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-397b-a17b-vs-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-5-4b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.5-4B vs Qwen3.8-27B", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-coder-next.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-Coder-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-coder-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-2b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-2b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-smollm3-3b.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs SmolLM3-3B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-smollm3-3b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-spark-x2-6-4b.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Spark-X2.6-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-spark-x2-6-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 57, "edge": "qwen3-8-27b", "key": "capability", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 13, "name": "Capability", "qwen3-8-27b": 70, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "lfm2-5-2-6b", "key": "reach", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 95, "name": "Reach", "qwen3-8-27b": 90, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "qwen3-8-27b", "key": "risk", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 50, "name": "Risk", "qwen3-8-27b": 55, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "lfm2-5-2-6b", "key": "interface", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 75, "name": "Agent interface", "qwen3-8-27b": 70, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "lfm2-5-2-6b", "key": "upkeep", "lfm2-5-2-6b": 57, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "qwen3-8-27b": 36, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Qwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) 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.", "qwen3-8-27b": "A dense cousin for coding and agent work with image and video input that runs almost anywhere. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 22 GB, and five providers host it for agents without the hardware. The main risk is that nobody at Alibaba answers, there are no safety results or agent guidance, and the tool format is only in the template." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-8-27b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) 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- Qwen3.8-27B: grade B, 68.6/100, rank #10 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-27b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-8-27b.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 90\n- Agent interface, 75 against 70\n- Documentation and upkeep, 57 against 36\n\nWatch for: Commercial use isn't licensed for organisations with $10M or more of annual revenue\n\n### Qwen3.8-27B (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a capable open model with vision on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac, with the widest runtime support and a plain licence.\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 70 against 13\n- Risk, 55 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No safety results, prompt-injection guidance or security contact\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | LFM2.5-2.6B | Qwen3.8-27B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 13 | 70 | Qwen3.8-27B +57 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 90 | LFM2.5-2.6B +5 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 50 | 55 | Qwen3.8-27B +5 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 75 | 70 | LFM2.5-2.6B +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 57 | 36 | LFM2.5-2.6B +21 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.5 · D** | **68.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | LFM2.5-2.6B | Qwen3.8-27B |\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 | 2026-08-14 |\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) | 3/5 (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**Qwen3.8-27B.** A dense cousin for coding and agent work with image and video input that runs almost anywhere. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 22 GB, and five providers host it for agents without the hardware. The main risk is that nobody at Alibaba answers, there are no safety results or agent guidance, and the tool format is only in the template.\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### Qwen3.8-27B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run qwen3.8`, about 18 GB of files\n2. On our reference machine use BF16 with `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B --max-model-len 131072 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`, since FP8 on gfx1151 isn't documented\n3. Use the qwen3_coder tool parser, SGLang's cookbook says the Hermes parser leaves its calls unparsed\n4. Thinking is on by default, pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks, and read the reasoning from `reasoning_content`\n5. `reasoning_effort` takes xhigh (default), medium or low, and any other value makes the template raise an error\n6. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 when thinking, temperature 0.7, top_p 0.8 and presence_penalty 1.5 without\n7. Preserved thinking keeps earlier reasoning in the context unless `preserve_thinking` is false, which grows long agent sessions\n8. Turn on YaRN only beyond 262,144 tokens, the card warns static YaRN can cost quality on short texts\n9. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, LFM2.5-2.6B or Qwen3.8-27B?\n\nQwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) 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-qwen3-8-27b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lfm2-5-2-6b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"lfm2-5-2-6b\", \"b\": \"qwen3-8-27b\"}`. 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