Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus· LFM2.5-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-350M only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Claude 3 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 39. 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 knowledge, where it averages 46 against 23.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 62% to 20.0%.

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

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLFM2.5-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.044%
BrowseComp56%
OSWorld-Verified47%
Coding
HumanEval84.9%
SWE-bench Verified10%
LiveCodeBench20%
SWE-bench Pro20%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro73%
OfficeQA Pro67%
Reasoning
MuSR57%
BBH74%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv263%
KnowledgeClaude 3 Opus wins
MMLU86.8%
GPQA61%30.6%
SuperGPQA59%
MMLU-Pro62%20.0%
HLE1%
FrontierScience56%
SimpleQA59%
Instruction FollowingTie
IFEval77%77.0%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX68%
Mathematics
AIME 202361%
AIME 202463%
AIME 202562%
HMMT Feb 202357%
HMMT Feb 202459%
HMMT Feb 202558%
BRUMO 202560%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

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

Claude 3 Opus is ahead overall, 49 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 62% and 20.0%.

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

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 46 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 Opus or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude 3 Opus and LFM2.5-350M are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 77 on average.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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