What are the hardware requirements for LFM3 1.7B?

LFM3 1.7B requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM3 1.7B and how large is it?

LFM3 1.7B is developed by LiquidAI, a model with 1.7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate LFM3 1.7B?

LFM3 1.7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM3 1.7B by LiquidAI — VRAM 3.5GB, 256K context

Name: LFM3 1.7B
Author: LiquidAI

LFM3 1.7B is an open-source language model by LiquidAI. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.57.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B

LFM3 1.7B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM3 1.7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B-Base LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B-Base
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-10-31
Maintainer	LiquidAI
Model Type	lfm3
Model Files	3.5 GB
Supported Languages	en ar zh fr de it ja ko pt es vi th id hi ru pl
Model Architecture	Lfm3ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	128000

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Quantized Models of the LFM3 1.7B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
LFM3 1.7B MLX 4bit	16	4944	1 GB
LFM3 1.7B MLX 8bit	11	2348	1 GB
LFM3 1.7B MLX 6bit	9	407	1 GB
LFM3 1.7B Heretic	2	2025	0 GB
LFM3 1.7B Frontier SmartAgent	2	1824	1 GB
LFM3 1.7B MLX 5bit	7	429	1 GB
LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit	1	430	1 GB
EchoPulse 1.7B	0	75	1 GB

Best Alternatives to LFM3 1.7B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
LFM3 1.7B Base	256K / 3.5 GB	3152	93
LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16	256K / 3.5 GB	1385	11
LFM3 1.7B NVFP4	256K / 1.8 GB	1360	16
Cosmic Lightning	256K / 3.5 GB	168	9
LFM3 1.7B ONNX	256K / GB	932	13
LFM3 1.7B FP8	256K / 2.2 GB	893	12
...3 1.7B Claude Code Safetensors	256K / 3.5 GB	975	1
Athena	256K / 3.5 GB	139	0
LFM3 1.7B MLX 4bit	256K / 1 GB	4944	16
LFM3 1.7B MLX 8bit	256K / 1.8 GB	2348	11