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Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking vs LFM2.5-8B-A1B

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 9 shared benchmark results across 5 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

36.57/100
Margin
4.7pts
winning →
41.25/100
0 category wins0 category wins

BenchAlign evidence: Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking supported; LFM2.5-8B-A1B estimated. Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and LFM2.5-8B-A1B share 9 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 1 result is unique to Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking; 9 to LFM2.5-8B-A1B.

Updated July 16, 2026
Shared results
9
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking only
1
LFM2.5-8B-A1B only
9
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and LFM2.5-8B-A1B is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 9 shared benchmark results across 5 evidence categories; 0 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

BenchLM has partial data for these models, but not enough overlapping benchmark coverage to produce a fair score-level comparison yet.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for LFM2.5-8B-A1B.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and LFM2.5-8B-A1B
CategoryClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingΔLFM2.5-8B-A1B
MathClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapLFM2.5-8B-A1B50.0
Inst. FollowingClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapLFM2.5-8B-A1B68.8

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-8B-A1BComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot availableLFM2.5-8B-A1B$0 input / $0 outputA complete price comparison is not available.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking29 tok/sLFM2.5-8B-A1BNot availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking15.00 sLFM2.5-8B-A1BNot availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking200KLFM2.5-8B-A1B128KClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-8B-A1BResult
τ²-bench resultsSource 71.4%16.1%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
BFCL v4Source 49.7%Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-8B-A1BResult
Terminal-Bench HardSource 34.3%4.5%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA-SciCodeSource 40.9%7.8%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-8B-A1BResult
AA-LCRSource 66.3%0.0%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
CritPtSource 0.0%0.0%Tie
Knowledge
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-8B-A1BResult
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 33.7%8.3%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 80.9%51.3%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA-HLESource 11.9%6.9%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource -33.3%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 9.4%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 47.0%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-8B-A1BResult
MATH-500Source 88.8%Not comparable
AIME 2025Source 42.5%Not comparable
AIME26Source 50.0%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-8B-A1BResult
AA-MMMU-ProSource 67.9%Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLFM2.5-8B-A1BResult
AA-IFBenchSource 55.4%55.6%LFM2.5-8B-A1B leads
IFEvalSource 91.8%Not comparable
IFBenchSource 56.5%Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and LFM2.5-8B-A1B on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but the sourced benchmark breakdown for this comparison is still coming soon.

Why does this comparison show “coming soon”?

BenchLM only shows category winners and benchmark-level calls when we have sourced results that can be compared fairly. For these models, the public benchmark coverage is not complete enough yet.

What data is available for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and LFM2.5-8B-A1B today?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking: Pricing unavailable LFM2.5-8B-A1B: $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens Both model pages still include creator, context window, reasoning mode, and other metadata while benchmark coverage fills in.

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Last updated: July 16, 2026

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