Claude Opus 4.6 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 4.6· LFM2.5-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-350M only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Claude Opus 4.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 84 to 39. 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 knowledge, where it averages 77.8 against 23.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 82% to 20.0%.

Claude Opus 4.6 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $15.00 input / $75.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for LFM2.5-350M. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.6 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$15.00 / $75.00Free*
Speed40 t/sN/A
TTFT1.78sN/A
Context1M32K

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6LFM2.5-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.065.4%
BrowseComp84%
Coding
SWE-bench Verified80.8%
LiveCodeBench76%
FLTEval39.6%
SWE-Rebench65.3%
React Native Evals84.4%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro77.3%
OfficeQA Pro94%
Reasoning
MuSR93%
BBH94%
LongBench v292%
MRCRv276%
ARC-AGI-268.8%
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.6 wins
MMLU99%
GPQA91.3%30.6%
SuperGPQA95%
MMLU-Pro82%20.0%
HLE53%
FrontierScience88%
SimpleQA72%
Instruction Following
IFEval77.0%
Multilingual
MGSM96%
Mathematics
AIME 202399%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202598%
HMMT Feb 202395%
HMMT Feb 202497%
HMMT Feb 202596%
BRUMO 202596%
MATH-50098%
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead overall, 84 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 82% and 20.0%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.6 or LFM2.5-350M?

Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 23.8. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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