Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking vs LFM2-24B-A2B

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

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 44 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 59.3 against 41.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 62 to 39. LFM2-24B-A2B does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while LFM2-24B-A2B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2-24B-A2B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2-24B-A2B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

46.7

LFM2-24B-A2B

33.4

45
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
49
BrowseComp
38
47
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

21.8

LFM2-24B-A2B

18

30
HumanEval
42
20
SWE-bench Verified
18
15
LiveCodeBench
17
29
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

59.3

LFM2-24B-A2B

41.7

62
MMMU-Pro
39
56
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

49.4

LFM2-24B-A2B

46.6

36
SimpleQA
44
34
MuSR
42
67
BBH
63
60
LongBench v2
48
60
MRCRv2
45

Knowledge

LFM2-24B-A2B

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

34.3

LFM2-24B-A2B

35.6

38
MMLU
46
37
GPQA
45
35
SuperGPQA
43
33
OpenBookQA
41
53
MMLU-Pro
51
8
HLE
4
41
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

LFM2-24B-A2B

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

66

LFM2-24B-A2B

68

66
IFEval
68

Multilingual

LFM2-24B-A2B

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

58.7

LFM2-24B-A2B

61.4

60
MGSM
64
58
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

LFM2-24B-A2B

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

48.3

LFM2-24B-A2B

50.4

38
AIME 2023
46
40
AIME 2024
48
39
AIME 2025
47
34
HMMT Feb 2023
42
36
HMMT Feb 2024
44
35
HMMT Feb 2025
43
37
BRUMO 2025
45
62
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is ahead overall, 44 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 62 and 39.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

LFM2-24B-A2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.6 versus 34.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 21.8 versus 18. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

LFM2-24B-A2B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 50.4 versus 48.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 46.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 46.7 versus 33.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.3 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 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

LFM2-24B-A2B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 68 versus 66. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2-24B-A2B?

LFM2-24B-A2B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.4 versus 58.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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