GLM-4.5-Air vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

GLM-4.5-Air is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 35 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GLM-4.5-Air's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 42.6 against 32.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 51 to 37. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GLM-4.5-Air gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-4.5-Air if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Agentic

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

30.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

28
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
37
BrowseComp
31
28
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

14.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

27
HumanEval
14
15
SWE-bench Verified
9
15
LiveCodeBench
8
14
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

39.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

36
MMMU-Pro
27
44
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

42.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

33
SimpleQA
24
31
MuSR
22
63
BBH
59
47
LongBench v2
34
51
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

31.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

35
MMLU
26
34
GPQA
25
32
SuperGPQA
23
30
OpenBookQA
21
51
MMLU-Pro
50
4
HLE
1
37
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

GLM-4.5-Air

68

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

68
IFEval
80

Multilingual

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

GLM-4.5-Air

59.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

63
MGSM
62
57
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

GLM-4.5-Air

GLM-4.5-Air

44.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

35
AIME 2023
24
37
AIME 2024
26
36
AIME 2025
25
31
HMMT Feb 2023
20
33
HMMT Feb 2024
22
32
HMMT Feb 2025
21
34
BRUMO 2025
23
57
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

GLM-4.5-Air is ahead overall, 35 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 51 and 37.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 31.1 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.6 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 44.4 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.6 versus 32.1. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 30.3 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, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

GLM-4.5-Air has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 39.6 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GLM-4.5-Air or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.7 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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