Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 80.8 against 37. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 73 to 14.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.
Pick DeepSeek LLM 2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0
57.9
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
25.7
DeepSeek LLM 2.0
42.9
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
7.2
DeepSeek LLM 2.0
64.5
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.4
DeepSeek LLM 2.0
73.6
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.1
DeepSeek LLM 2.0
57.5
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
26
DeepSeek LLM 2.0
85
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
80
DeepSeek LLM 2.0
78.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
60.7
DeepSeek LLM 2.0
80.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
37
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 is ahead overall, 62 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 73 and 14.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.5 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 42.9 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 80.8 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.6 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.9 versus 25.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.5 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek LLM 2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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