Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-5 mini is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5 mini's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 83.8 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 80 to 17.
GPT-5 mini gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.
Pick GPT-5 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
GPT-5 mini
65.7
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
34.1
GPT-5 mini
42.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
8.2
GPT-5 mini
83.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
32.4
GPT-5 mini
81.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
38.4
GPT-5 mini
62.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
27
GPT-5 mini
82
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
72
GPT-5 mini
80.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
60.7
GPT-5 mini
87.2
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
42.3
GPT-5 mini is ahead overall, 69 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 80 and 17.
GPT-5 mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 27. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5 mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 42.8 versus 8.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5 mini has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 87.2 versus 42.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5 mini has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 38.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5 mini has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.7 versus 34.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5 mini has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.8 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5 mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 72. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5 mini has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.1 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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