Claude 3 Haiku vs LFM2-24B-A2B

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

Claude 3 Haiku is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 3 Haiku's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 68.7 against 41.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 70 to 39.

Claude 3 Haiku gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2-24B-A2B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Haiku if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2-24B-A2B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

44

LFM2-24B-A2B

33.4

40
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
53
BrowseComp
38
42
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

19.3

LFM2-24B-A2B

18

48
HumanEval
42
17
SWE-bench Verified
18
20
LiveCodeBench
17
19
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

68.7

LFM2-24B-A2B

41.7

70
MMMU-Pro
39
67
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

59.6

LFM2-24B-A2B

46.6

54
SimpleQA
44
52
MuSR
42
74
BBH
63
63
LongBench v2
48
63
MRCRv2
45

Knowledge

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

42.8

LFM2-24B-A2B

35.6

56
MMLU
46
56
GPQA
45
54
SuperGPQA
43
52
OpenBookQA
41
63
MMLU-Pro
51
2
HLE
4
50
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

76

LFM2-24B-A2B

68

76
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

71.1

LFM2-24B-A2B

61.4

73
MGSM
64
70
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Claude 3 Haiku

Claude 3 Haiku

62.2

LFM2-24B-A2B

50.4

56
AIME 2023
46
58
AIME 2024
48
57
AIME 2025
47
52
HMMT Feb 2023
42
54
HMMT Feb 2024
44
53
HMMT Feb 2025
43
55
BRUMO 2025
45
71
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku is ahead overall, 49 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 70 and 39.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.8 versus 35.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 19.3 versus 18. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 62.2 versus 50.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59.6 versus 46.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 33.4. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.7 versus 41.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 76 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.1 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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