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LFM2.5 24B-A2B vs EuroLLM 22B Instruct

Updated November 2026

Verdict

LFM2.5 24B-A2B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 61.4 vs 19.2. On the 3 benchmarks both labs report, LFM2.5 24B-A2B wins 3 and EuroLLM 22B Instruct wins 0. Both need about 16.5 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization. Only LFM2.5 24B-A2B has a hosted API on OpenRouter ($0.21 per million tokens); the other has to be self-hosted.

Pick LFM2.5 24B-A2B if…

you want the strongest model overall
you need math and reasoning
you need precise instruction following
you want a hosted API rather than running it yourself
you work with long documents
you want the more widely used model (more quantized builds and community support)

Pick EuroLLM 22B Instruct if…

you need a permissive license (Apache-2.0)

Specifications

	LFM2.5 24B-A2B	EuroLLM 22B Instruct
Small LM Index	61.4 (likely 57–65)	19.2 (likely 16–24)
Lab	Liquid AI · United States	EuroLLM (UTTER consortium) · Europe
Released	2026-10-13	2025-12-05
Parameters	24B (2B active, MoE)	22.6B (dense)
Memory at 4-bit	~15.7 GB	~16.5 GB
Context window	128K tokens	32K tokens
Input	text	text
Reasoning	No thinking	No thinking
License	LFM Open License	Apache-2.0
API price / 1M tokens	$0.21 ($0.050 in, $0.70 out)	Self-host only
Hugging Face downloads (30 days)	32.8K	8.5K

Benchmarks

Higher is better. Bold marks the winner where both labs report a score. ≈ marks the index model's estimate for a score that wasn't reported, ✓ an independent measurement and * a score measured by another lab.

Benchmark	LFM2.5 24B-A2B	EuroLLM 22B Instruct
MMLU-Pro Knowledge	≈ 79	50.9
GPQA Diamond Knowledge	74.4	26.8
Humanity's Last Exam Reasoning	7.4	≈ 1
SWE-bench Verified Coding	51.0	≈ 5
IFBench Instruction following	74.7	—
MMLU Knowledge	—	69.8
Multilingual MMLU Multilingual	—	64.1
IFEval Instruction following	96.8	67.2
BFCL Agentic	65.0	—
MATH-500 Math	96.0	54.5
SciCode Coding	32.7	—

Scores are mostly reported by each lab with its own settings, so small gaps are noise. See the methodology. Open in the interactive comparison to add more models.

Questions

Which is better, LFM2.5 24B-A2B or EuroLLM 22B Instruct?

LFM2.5 24B-A2B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 61.4 vs 19.2. On the 3 benchmarks both labs report, LFM2.5 24B-A2B wins 3 and EuroLLM 22B Instruct wins 0.

Which is cheaper to run?

Only LFM2.5 24B-A2B has a hosted API on OpenRouter ($0.21 per million tokens); the other has to be self-hosted. Both need about 16.5 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization.

Which has the longer context window?

LFM2.5 24B-A2B has the longer context window: 128K tokens against 32K.

Can I use LFM2.5 24B-A2B and EuroLLM 22B Instruct commercially?

LFM2.5 24B-A2B is released under LFM Open License and EuroLLM 22B Instruct under Apache-2.0. Apache 2.0 and MIT allow commercial use; other licenses can add conditions, so read the license before shipping a product.