Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking 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 4.1 Opus Thinking· LFM2.5-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-350M only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 58 to 39. 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 knowledge, where it averages 49 against 23.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 76% to 20.0%.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while LFM2.5-350M 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 LFM2.5-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed29 t/sN/A
TTFT15.00sN/A
Context200K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.043.3%
BrowseComp54%
OSWorld-Verified47%
Coding
HumanEval68%
SWE-bench Verified74.5%
LiveCodeBench45%
SWE-bench Pro29%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro78%
OfficeQA Pro69%
Reasoning
MuSR72%
BBH86%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv274%
KnowledgeClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking wins
MMLU76%
GPQA80.9%30.6%
SuperGPQA72%
MMLU-Pro76%20.0%
HLE8%
FrontierScience41%
SimpleQA36%
Instruction FollowingClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking wins
IFEval88%77.0%
Multilingual
MGSM82%
MMLU-ProX73%
Mathematics
AIME 202338%
AIME 202440%
AIME 202590%
HMMT Feb 202334%
HMMT Feb 202436%
HMMT Feb 202535%
BRUMO 202537%
MATH-50087%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking is ahead overall, 58 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 76% and 20.0%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 49 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 4.1 Opus Thinking or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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