# LFM3-VL-2B vs Qwen3.5-4B (slim)

> Qwen3.5-4B and LFM3-VL-2B score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61.2 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Qwen3.5-4B and LFM3-VL-2B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61.2 (C) and 61 (C). LFM3-VL-2B leads on agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- LFM3-VL-2B: C 61, rank #72 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm3-vl-2b.min.md
- Qwen3.5-4B: C 61.2, rank #38 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-4b.min.md
- LFM3-VL-2B, good for Agents on a laptop, phone or robot that need to read screens, documents, images and video from a model under 2 GB at 4 bits Ahead on Agent interface, 90 against 70; Documentation and upkeep, 77 against 34.
- Qwen3.5-4B, good for Agents that want a cheap local helper for tool calls, short reasoning and reading images on a laptop or small GPU Ahead on Risk, 55 against 40.

| Category | LFM3-VL-2B | Qwen3.5-4B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 85 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 90 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 77 | 34 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LFM3-VL-2B | Qwen3.5-4B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Liquid AI | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Licence | LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue) | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-09 | 2026-03-02 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, LFM3-VL-2B +43: LFM3-VL-2B 77 (Model card 17, Intended use (questions about video, documents, charts and app screens, finding objects, spatial reasoning), a limitation (not recommended for co…); Qwen3.5-4B 34 (The card covers five of the seven items and misses limitations and a cut-off (14).)
- Agent interface, LFM3-VL-2B +20: LFM3-VL-2B 90 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,129 characters), with roles, images and video, tools, deferred tools, tool results and the thinking…); Qwen3.5-4B 70 (The template ships in the repository (20) and the model was trained for tool use with several calls per turn in the template (20).)
- Risk, Qwen3.5-4B +15: LFM3-VL-2B 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Qwen3.5-4B 55 (Safetensors only with no remote code gives file safety its 25, and files in the Qwen organisation the publisher's GitHub links to, each with a hash on the Hub…)