Gemma 3 27B 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

Gemma 3 27B· LFM2.5-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick LFM2.5-350M if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 3 27B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.

LFM2.5-350M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 39 to 34. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

LFM2.5-350M's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 77 against 67. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 50% to 20.0%. Gemma 3 27B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
Speed31 t/sN/A
TTFT2.04sN/A
Context32K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLFM2.5-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.029%
BrowseComp42%
OSWorld-Verified35%
Coding
HumanEval37%
SWE-bench Verified16%
LiveCodeBench15%
SWE-bench Pro17%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro39%
OfficeQA Pro45%
Reasoning
MuSR41%
BBH62%
LongBench v247%
MRCRv244%
KnowledgeGemma 3 27B wins
MMLU45%
GPQA44%30.6%
SuperGPQA42%
MMLU-Pro50%20.0%
HLE3%
FrontierScience42%
SimpleQA43%
Instruction FollowingLFM2.5-350M wins
IFEval67%77.0%
Multilingual
MGSM64%
MMLU-ProX60%
Mathematics
AIME 202345%
AIME 202447%
AIME 202546%
HMMT Feb 202341%
HMMT Feb 202443%
HMMT Feb 202542%
BRUMO 202544%
MATH-50056%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Gemma 3 27B or LFM2.5-350M?

LFM2.5-350M is ahead overall, 39 to 34. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 50% and 20.0%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 3 27B or LFM2.5-350M?

Gemma 3 27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.2 versus 23.8. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemma 3 27B or LFM2.5-350M?

LFM2.5-350M has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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