Claude 3 Haiku vs LFM2.5-350M

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Claude 3 Haiku· LFM2.5-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Haiku if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-350M only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Claude 3 Haiku has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 42 versus 39. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Claude 3 Haiku's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 43.5 against 23.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 63% to 20.0%. LFM2.5-350M does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude 3 Haiku gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed138 t/sN/A
TTFT1.16sN/A
Context200K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuLFM2.5-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.040%
BrowseComp53%
OSWorld-Verified42%
Coding
HumanEval73%
SWE-bench Verified17%
LiveCodeBench20%
SWE-bench Pro19%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro70%
OfficeQA Pro67%
Reasoning
MuSR52%
BBH74%
LongBench v263%
MRCRv263%
KnowledgeClaude 3 Haiku wins
MMLU75.2%
GPQA56%30.6%
SuperGPQA54%
MMLU-Pro63%20.0%
HLE2%
FrontierScience50%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction FollowingLFM2.5-350M wins
IFEval76%77.0%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX70%
Mathematics
AIME 202356%
AIME 202458%
AIME 202557%
HMMT Feb 202352%
HMMT Feb 202454%
HMMT Feb 202553%
BRUMO 202555%
MATH-50071%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude 3 Haiku is ahead overall, 42 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 63% and 20.0%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.5 versus 23.8. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 3 Haiku or LFM2.5-350M?

LFM2.5-350M has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 76. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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