Aion-2.0 vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Aion-2.0 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 58 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Aion-2.0's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 70.3 against 32.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OpenBookQA, 75 to 21.

Aion-2.0 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.80 input / $1.60 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Aion-2.0 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Aion-2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

51.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
60
BrowseComp
31
50
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

33.2

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

66
HumanEval
14
35
SWE-bench Verified
9
29
LiveCodeBench
8
37
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

66

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

61
MMMU-Pro
27
72
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

70.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

76
SimpleQA
24
74
MuSR
22
76
BBH
59
64
LongBench v2
34
65
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

54

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

78
MMLU
26
77
GPQA
25
75
SuperGPQA
23
75
OpenBookQA
21
67
MMLU-Pro
50
5
HLE
1
66
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

93

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

93
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

78.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

80
MGSM
62
77
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

72.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

74
AIME 2023
24
76
AIME 2024
26
75
AIME 2025
25
70
HMMT Feb 2023
20
72
HMMT Feb 2024
22
71
HMMT Feb 2025
21
73
BRUMO 2025
23
71
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 is ahead overall, 58 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OpenBookQA, where the scores are 75 and 21.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 26. Inside this category, OpenBookQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33.2 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.1 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.7 versus 25.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Aion-2.0 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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