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

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

Claude 4.1 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 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's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 80.7 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 82 to 27.

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

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4.1 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

58.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

34.1

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
34
62
BrowseComp
37
57
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

44

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

8.2

68
HumanEval
17
48
SWE-bench Verified
10
40
LiveCodeBench
9
47
SWE-bench Pro
7

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

80.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

32.4

82
MMMU-Pro
27
79
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

72.9

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

38.4

74
SimpleQA
29
72
MuSR
31
81
BBH
67
71
LongBench v2
39
71
MRCRv2
42

Knowledge

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

57.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

27

76
MMLU
27
76
GPQA
26
74
SuperGPQA
24
72
OpenBookQA
22
75
MMLU-Pro
51
11
HLE
2
68
FrontierScience
31

Instruction Following

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

83

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

72

83
IFEval
72

Multilingual

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

81.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

60.7

85
MGSM
62
80
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Claude 4.1 Opus

Claude 4.1 Opus

77.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

42.3

76
AIME 2023
28
78
AIME 2024
30
77
AIME 2025
29
72
HMMT Feb 2023
24
74
HMMT Feb 2024
26
73
HMMT Feb 2025
25
75
BRUMO 2025
27
81
MATH-500
61

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Claude 4.1 Opus is ahead overall, 64 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 82 and 27.

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

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.6 versus 27. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 8.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 77.7 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 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 38.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.7 versus 34.1. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.7 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 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 72. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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