Inkling vs LFM2.5-VL-3B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Inkling is developed by Thinking Machines Lab, while LFM2.5-VL-3B comes from Liquid AI. Inkling was released in July 2026, and LFM2.5-VL-3B followed a month later in August 2026. Inkling is the larger model at roughly 975 billion parameters, against 3 billion for LFM2.5-VL-3B.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Inkling leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on IFBench, where Inkling scores 79.8% against 25.8%; MMMU-Pro, where Inkling scores 73.5% against 30.5%. Averaged across everything we track, Inkling sits at 61.8% and LFM2.5-VL-3B at 63.7%.
Inkling is available through an API at $0.95 per million input tokens with a 524K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for LFM2.5-VL-3B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Inkling | LFM2.5-VL-3B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Thinking Machines Lab | Liquid AI |
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | August 12, 2026 |
| Parameters | 975B | 3B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 524K | — |
| Context (output) | 524K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.95 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.05 | — |
| Average Score | 61.8% | 63.7% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| IFBench | 79.8% | 25.8% |
| MMMU-Pro | 73.5% | 30.5% |
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Verdict
LFM2.5-VL-3B leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Inkling — 0.6, LFM2.5-VL-3B — 0.6.
LFM2.5-VL-3B is newer: released 8/12/2026 vs 7/21/2026.
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