Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude Opus 4.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 85 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.6's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 75.1 against 18. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 80 to 18.
Claude Opus 4.6 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $15.00 input / $75.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.03 input / $0.12 output per 1M tokens for LFM2-24B-A2B. That is roughly 625.0x on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.6 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for LFM2-24B-A2B.
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2-24B-A2B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Opus 4.6
79.2
LFM2-24B-A2B
33.4
Claude Opus 4.6
75.1
LFM2-24B-A2B
18
Claude Opus 4.6
94.6
LFM2-24B-A2B
41.7
Claude Opus 4.6
93.1
LFM2-24B-A2B
46.6
Claude Opus 4.6
78.9
LFM2-24B-A2B
35.6
Claude Opus 4.6
95
LFM2-24B-A2B
68
Claude Opus 4.6
94.7
LFM2-24B-A2B
61.4
Claude Opus 4.6
97.2
LFM2-24B-A2B
50.4
Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall, 85 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 80 and 18.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.9 versus 35.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 18. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97.2 versus 50.4. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 93.1 versus 46.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.2 versus 33.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.6 versus 41.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.7 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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