Head-to-head comparison
Nova Pro 1.0 (Amazon) and LFM2.5-2.6B (Liquid) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 3 September 2026
As of 3 September 2026, LFM2.5-2.6B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#183 vs #184); LFM2.5-2.6B is cheaper per output token (Free/1M vs $3.20/1M); and Nova Pro 1.0 offers the longer context window (300K vs 66K tokens).
Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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LFM2.5-2.6B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 3 September 2026: #183 against #184. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
LFM2.5-2.6B is cheaper on output tokens: Free/1M against $3.20/1M. Input tokens are $0.80/1M for Nova Pro 1.0 and Free/1M for LFM2.5-2.6B. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Nova Pro 1.0 has the larger context window: 300K tokens against 66K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Nova Pro 1.0: API only. LFM2.5-2.6B: Restricted license. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Nova Pro 1.0 and 1 for LFM2.5-2.6B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 3 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.