Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-5.2 Instant is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 85 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.2 Instant's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 75.5 against 8.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 98 to 27.
GPT-5.2 Instant is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.50 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. GPT-5.2 Instant gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.
Pick GPT-5.2 Instant if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
GPT-5.2 Instant
79.6
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
34.1
GPT-5.2 Instant
75.5
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
8.2
GPT-5.2 Instant
93.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
32.4
GPT-5.2 Instant
90.9
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
38.4
GPT-5.2 Instant
79.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
27
GPT-5.2 Instant
95
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
72
GPT-5.2 Instant
94.4
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
60.7
GPT-5.2 Instant
97.2
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
42.3
GPT-5.2 Instant is ahead overall, 85 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 98 and 27.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.8 versus 27. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 75.5 versus 8.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97.2 versus 42.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 90.9 versus 38.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 34.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 93.1 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 72. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.4 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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