Side-by-side comparison of Command R+ (Cohere · Canada) and LFM2.5-8B-A1B (Liquid AI) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Command R+ is rated conditional; LFM2.5-8B-A1B is conditional. They part ways on licence: Command R+ is "CC-BY-NC 4.0", LFM2.5-8B-A1B is "LFM Open License 1.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Enterprise-focused 104B model, strong at RAG and multilingual tool use. Weights are released under CC-BY-NC 4.0 — non-commercial only. Commercial deployment goes through Cohere's API (see Cohere API entry). | Conditional Per the published LFM Open License v1.0, Liquid AI's terms are Apache-2.0-derived but cap free commercial use at USD 10M annual company revenue — above that threshold deployers must negotiate a paid licence with [email protected]. The model itself is a strong 8.3B / 1.5B-active MoE built for CPU and edge inference, but the 38-trillion-token training corpus is undisclosed and Liquid AI is a US-based MIT spinoff, so EU regulated buyers should run their own DPIA and document the data-transfer story alongside any commercial-tier negotiation. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-30 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | CC-BY-NC 4.0 | LFM Open License 1.0 |
| Commercial use | API only | Free under $10M revenue |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | Canada | USA (Boston) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | $6.00/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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