# LFM3-1.7B vs MiniCPM-o 4.5 (slim)

> LFM3-1.7B and MiniCPM-o 4.5 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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LFM3-1.7B and MiniCPM-o 4.5 score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). MiniCPM-o 4.5 leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- LFM3-1.7B: C 61, rank #69 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm3-1-7b.min.md
- MiniCPM-o 4.5: C 61, rank #48 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm-o-4-5.min.md
- 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.
- MiniCPM-o 4.5, good for Agents that need a local model to see, hear and speak on a laptop or a single small GPU, with a plain licence. Ahead on Reach, 90 against 85.

| Category | LFM3-1.7B | MiniCPM-o 4.5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 85 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 40 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 100 | 35 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 67 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LFM3-1.7B | MiniCPM-o 4.5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Liquid AI | OpenBMB |
| Licence | LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue) | Apache-2.0; built from Qwen3-8B, SigLIP2, Whisper-medium and CosyVoice2, all Apache 2.0 on their Hub cards |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-09 | 2026-10-24 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, LFM3-1.7B +65: 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.); MiniCPM-o 4.5 35 (Chat template 20, a Jinja template in the tokenizer config.)
- Reach, MiniCPM-o 4.5 +5: 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.); MiniCPM-o 4.5 90 (Memory 30, OpenBMB's 4-bit GGUF with its vision file is 5.9 GB, about 7 GB with a fifth added.)