DBRX Instruct vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

DBRX Instruct is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 37 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DBRX Instruct's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 48 against 7.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 70.1 to 14. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick DBRX Instruct if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority.

Agentic

DBRX Instruct

DBRX Instruct

34.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

41
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
31
BrowseComp
31
29
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

DBRX Instruct

DBRX Instruct

48

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

70.1
HumanEval
14
48
SWE-bench Pro
6
Coming soon
SWE-bench Verified
9
Coming soon
LiveCodeBench
8

Multimodal & Grounded

DBRX Instruct

DBRX Instruct

35.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

36
MMMU-Pro
27
35
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

DBRX Instruct

DBRX Instruct

36.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

36
LongBench v2
34
37
MRCRv2
37
Coming soon
SimpleQA
24
Coming soon
MuSR
22
Coming soon
BBH
59

Knowledge

DBRX Instruct

DBRX Instruct

52

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

73.7
MMLU
26
52
FrontierScience
30
Coming soon
GPQA
25
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
23
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
21
Coming soon
MMLU-Pro
50
Coming soon
HLE
1

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
IFEval
80

Multilingual

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

DBRX Instruct

46

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

46
MMLU-ProX
60
Coming soon
MGSM
62

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
AIME 2023
24
Coming soon
AIME 2024
26
Coming soon
AIME 2025
25
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2023
20
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2024
22
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
21
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
23
Coming soon
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DBRX Instruct or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

DBRX Instruct is ahead overall, 37 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 70.1 and 14.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DBRX Instruct or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DBRX Instruct or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 48 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DBRX Instruct or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 36.4 versus 32.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DBRX Instruct or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.3 versus 25.7. 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, DBRX Instruct or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.6 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DBRX Instruct or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.7 versus 46. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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