Granite-4.0-H-350M 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

Granite-4.0-H-350M· LFM2.5-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick LFM2.5-350M if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-350M only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

LFM2.5-350M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 39 to 24. 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 55.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is IFEval, 55.4% to 77.0%.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMLiquidAI
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-350MLFM2.5-350M
Agentic
Coming soon
Coding
HumanEval39%
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
BBH33.1%
KnowledgeLFM2.5-350M wins
MMLU35.0%
GPQA24.1%30.6%
MMLU-Pro12.1%20.0%
Instruction FollowingLFM2.5-350M wins
IFEval55.4%77.0%
Multilingual
MGSM14.7%
Mathematics
Coming soon
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-350M or LFM2.5-350M?

LFM2.5-350M is ahead overall, 39 to 24. The biggest single separator in this matchup is IFEval, where the scores are 55.4% and 77.0%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-350M or LFM2.5-350M?

LFM2.5-350M has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 23.8 versus 16.4. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-H-350M or LFM2.5-350M?

LFM2.5-350M has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 55.4. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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