Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

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 33. 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 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 62 to 27. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Agentic

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

46.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

34.1

45
Terminal-Bench 2.0
34
49
BrowseComp
37
47
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

21.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

8.2

30
HumanEval
17
20
SWE-bench Verified
10
15
LiveCodeBench
9
29
SWE-bench Pro
7

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

59.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

32.4

62
MMMU-Pro
27
56
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

49.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

38.4

36
SimpleQA
29
34
MuSR
31
67
BBH
67
60
LongBench v2
39
60
MRCRv2
42

Knowledge

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

34.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

27

38
MMLU
27
37
GPQA
26
35
SuperGPQA
24
33
OpenBookQA
22
53
MMLU-Pro
51
8
HLE
2
41
FrontierScience
31

Instruction Following

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

66

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

72

66
IFEval
72

Multilingual

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

58.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

60.7

60
MGSM
62
58
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking

48.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

42.3

38
AIME 2023
28
40
AIME 2024
30
39
AIME 2025
29
34
HMMT Feb 2023
24
36
HMMT Feb 2024
26
35
HMMT Feb 2025
25
37
BRUMO 2025
27
62
MATH-500
61

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is ahead overall, 44 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 62 and 27.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.3 versus 27. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 21.8 versus 8.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 48.3 versus 42.3. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 49.4 versus 38.4. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 46.7 versus 34.1. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.3 versus 32.4. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 72 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.7 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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