# LFM3-Omni-2B vs Recursive Flint (slim)

> LFM3-Omni-2B and Recursive Flint 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-Omni-2B and Recursive Flint score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Recursive Flint leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- LFM3-Omni-2B: C 61, rank #71 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm3-omni-2b.min.md
- Recursive Flint: C 61, rank #54 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.min.md
- LFM3-Omni-2B, good for Voice and camera agents on a laptop or phone that want one small model for hearing, seeing, speaking and calling tools
- Recursive Flint, good for Agents doing repository work on a 32 to 48 GB Mac or NVIDIA box that want a sparse coder with documented tool calls and a plain licence. Ahead on Reach, 85 against 80; Risk, 60 against 40; Agent interface, 90 against 70; Documentation and upkeep, 67 against 49.

| Category | LFM3-Omni-2B | Recursive Flint |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 80 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 70 | 90 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 49 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LFM3-Omni-2B | Recursive Flint |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Liquid AI | Recursive |
| Licence | LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue) | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-03 | 2026-10-21 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Risk, Recursive Flint +20: LFM3-Omni-2B 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Recursive Flint 60 (File safety 15 of 25, safetensors and GGUF only, but the card's documented BF16 route installs the wheel shipped in the repository.)
- Agent interface, Recursive Flint +20: LFM3-Omni-2B 70 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (13,513 characters), with roles, images, video and audio, tools, deferred tools and tool results.); Recursive Flint 90 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository and inside both GGUFs.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Recursive Flint +18: LFM3-Omni-2B 49 (Model card 14, Intended use (one on-device model in place of separate speech recognition, vision, language and speech models), architecture, parameters (2.17B)…); Recursive Flint 67 (Model card 17 of 20, everything but languages.)
- Reach, Recursive Flint +5: LFM3-Omni-2B 80 (Memory 30, Liquid's Q4_K_M GGUF is 1.10 GB with its 0.29 GB projector file, and 1.39 GB × 1.2 = 1.7 GB, which fits 8 GB, well inside the 16 GB line.); Recursive Flint 85 (Memory 20 of 30, Recursive's MLX INT4 build is 22.6 GB, or 27.1 GB with a fifth added, which fits 32 GB, and every other 4-bit build lands in the same band.)