Claude Opus 4.5 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 Opus 4.5· LFM2.5-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-350M only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Claude Opus 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 78 to 39. 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 knowledge, where it averages 71.7 against 23.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 81% to 20.0%.

Claude Opus 4.5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed46 t/sN/A
TTFT1.01sN/A
Context200K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5LFM2.5-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.059.3%
BrowseComp73%
OSWorld-Verified68%
Coding
HumanEval91%
SWE-bench Verified80.9%
LiveCodeBench57%
SWE-bench Pro62%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro94%
OfficeQA Pro87%
Reasoning
MuSR93%
BBH87%
LongBench v282%
MRCRv281%
ARC-AGI-237.6%
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.5 wins
MMLU90.8%
GPQA87%30.6%
SuperGPQA95%
MMLU-Pro81%20.0%
HLE20%
FrontierScience84%
SimpleQA95%
Instruction FollowingClaude Opus 4.5 wins
IFEval90%77.0%
Multilingual
MGSM90%
MMLU-ProX84%
Mathematics
AIME 202399%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202598%
HMMT Feb 202395%
HMMT Feb 202497%
HMMT Feb 202596%
BRUMO 202596%
MATH-50089%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall, 78 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 81% and 20.0%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.7 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 Opus 4.5 or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 90 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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