Claude 3 Opus vs LFM2-24B-A2B

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

Claude 3 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 51 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 3 Opus's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 70.3 against 41.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 73 to 39.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus

Claude 3 Opus

48.1

LFM2-24B-A2B

33.4

44
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
56
BrowseComp
38
47
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3 Opus

19

LFM2-24B-A2B

18

53
HumanEval
42
10
SWE-bench Verified
18
20
LiveCodeBench
17
20
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3 Opus

70.3

LFM2-24B-A2B

41.7

73
MMMU-Pro
39
67
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3 Opus

61.6

LFM2-24B-A2B

46.6

59
SimpleQA
44
57
MuSR
42
74
BBH
63
62
LongBench v2
48
63
MRCRv2
45

Knowledge

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3 Opus

45

LFM2-24B-A2B

35.6

61
MMLU
46
61
GPQA
45
59
SuperGPQA
43
57
OpenBookQA
41
62
MMLU-Pro
51
1
HLE
4
56
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3 Opus

77

LFM2-24B-A2B

68

77
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3 Opus

69.8

LFM2-24B-A2B

61.4

73
MGSM
64
68
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Claude 3 Opus

Claude 3 Opus

65.9

LFM2-24B-A2B

50.4

61
AIME 2023
46
63
AIME 2024
48
62
AIME 2025
47
57
HMMT Feb 2023
42
59
HMMT Feb 2024
44
58
HMMT Feb 2025
43
60
BRUMO 2025
45
73
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Claude 3 Opus is ahead overall, 51 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 73 and 39.

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

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 45 versus 35.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 19 versus 18. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.9 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 Opus or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 61.6 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 Opus or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.1 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 Opus or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.3 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 Opus or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.8 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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