Claude Opus 4.5 vs LFM2-24B-A2B

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

Claude Opus 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Opus 4.5's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 90.9 against 41.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 94 to 39.

Claude Opus 4.5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2-24B-A2B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2-24B-A2B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

70.5

LFM2-24B-A2B

33.4

71
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
73
BrowseComp
38
68
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

60.4

LFM2-24B-A2B

18

91
HumanEval
42
68
SWE-bench Verified
18
57
LiveCodeBench
17
62
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

90.9

LFM2-24B-A2B

41.7

94
MMMU-Pro
39
87
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

87.7

LFM2-24B-A2B

46.6

95
SimpleQA
44
93
MuSR
42
87
BBH
63
82
LongBench v2
48
81
MRCRv2
45

Knowledge

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

70.9

LFM2-24B-A2B

35.6

99
MMLU
46
97
GPQA
45
95
SuperGPQA
43
93
OpenBookQA
41
81
MMLU-Pro
51
20
HLE
4
84
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

90

LFM2-24B-A2B

68

90
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

86.1

LFM2-24B-A2B

61.4

90
MGSM
64
84
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Claude Opus 4.5

Claude Opus 4.5

93.2

LFM2-24B-A2B

50.4

99
AIME 2023
46
99
AIME 2024
48
98
AIME 2025
47
95
HMMT Feb 2023
42
97
HMMT Feb 2024
44
96
HMMT Feb 2025
43
96
BRUMO 2025
45
89
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall, 77 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 94 and 39.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.9 versus 35.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 18. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 93.2 versus 50.4. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 87.7 versus 46.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 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 Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 90.9 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 Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 90 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 86.1 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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