Pipette: The First Open Benchmark Suite for On-Device AI
Pipette, the newly open-sourced benchmarking suite from Liquid AI, treats on-device AI behavior not as a model property alone, but as the outcome of an entire deployment stack. It packages model, quantization, runtime and device into a single measurable configuration, offering developers the first reproducible way to see how a model will actually behave once it leaves the server and lands in a consumer handset.
Benchmarks beyond the lab
Most model cards still report accuracy on high-end servers with full-precision weights. Pipette flips the script by measuring end-to-end latency, throughput and memory on real devices. The launch dataset already spans over 1,000 unique combinations—30-plus models, multiple quantization formats, llama.cpp builds for macOS, iOS, Windows and Android, and context lengths from 256 up to 8,192 tokens. Independent validator Artificial Analysis reviewed the methodology before publication.
What you can test today
Pipette ships as Apache 2.0 infrastructure—management tools, client libraries and score repositories—plus a public leaderboard, hosted dashboard and native iOS and Android benchmark apps. Anyone can download the apps to run the same tests on their own devices. Early verified results already show stark differences: two 350 M-parameter models at the same quantization on the same iPhone 17 Pro deliver 78.4 % versus 33.8 % of decode throughput at 4,096 tokens, underscoring how much runtime choices matter.
Who benefits—and how
Solo developers and seed-stage teams can use the dashboard and mobile apps without touching infrastructure. Mid-market product teams can automate tests across an internal device fleet. Large OEMs and chip vendors can run the full pipeline behind their own firewall. The benchmarking focus is practical: choose quantization and runtime before committing engineering cycles, validate SoC claims, catch regressions after OS or driver updates, or plan context-length budgets for production traffic.
Why it matters
Until now, teams shipping AI to edge devices have relied on server-side numbers or vendor brochures. Pipette turns on-device behavior into observable, repeatable data anyone can trust. By making the entire stack measurable—model, quantization, runtime and hardware—it removes a major blind spot in the AI supply chain and gives practitioners the tools to make deployment decisions grounded in reality rather than marketing.
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