LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B vs Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B

A side-by-side comparison of LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B ($1.22 / 1M tokens) and Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B ($1.23 / 1M tokens) using current USD prices and capabilities from the api14 catalog. Both run through the same OpenAI-compatible API.

Specifications

	LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B	Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Provider	LiquidAI	Mistral
Input	$1.22 / 1M tokens	$1.23 / 1M tokens
Output	$1.75 / 1M tokens	$1.94 / 1M tokens
Cache read	$0.14 / 1M tokens	-
Context window	128,000	128,000
Max output	8,192	102,400
Input	text	text, image
Output	text	text
Tool calling
Structured output
Reasoning control
Added	Aug 11, 2026	Mar 17, 2025

Key differences

Both have about the same input price.
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B is 10% cheaper on output tokens.
Only LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B supports reasoning effort control.
A request with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens costs $0.00210 with LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B and $0.00220 with Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B.

Switch with one string

Both models use the same endpoint and request shape. Change the model value from "liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b" to "mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct" and prompts, streaming and tools keep working.

LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B details & playground →Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B details & playground →

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api14.com/api/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.API14_API_KEY,
});

const result = await client.chat.completions.create({
  "model": "mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Explain vector databases in two sentences."
    }
  ]
});
console.log(result.choices[0].message.content);

LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B vs Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24B

Specifications

Key differences

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