Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 81 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 95 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 91 to 14.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is the reasoning model in the pair, while LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

78.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
87
BrowseComp
31
73
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

60.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

91
HumanEval
14
58
SWE-bench Verified
9
58
LiveCodeBench
8
63
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

95

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

95
MMMU-Pro
27
95
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

95
SimpleQA
24
93
MuSR
22
95
BBH
59
94
LongBench v2
34
96
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

74.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

99
MMLU
26
97
GPQA
25
95
SuperGPQA
23
93
OpenBookQA
21
81
MMLU-Pro
50
32
HLE
1
88
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

89

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

89
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

87.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

92
MGSM
62
85
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think

94.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

99
AIME 2023
24
99
AIME 2024
26
98
AIME 2025
25
95
HMMT Feb 2023
20
97
HMMT Feb 2024
22
96
HMMT Feb 2025
21
96
BRUMO 2025
23
92
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 81 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 91 and 14.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 94.5 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 25.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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