Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) 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

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)· LFM2.5-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-350M only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 76 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 67.9 against 23.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 87.1% to 20.0%.

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while LFM2.5-350M is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkKimi K2.5 (Reasoning)LFM2.5-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.050.8%
BrowseComp60.6%
OSWorld-Verified63.3%
Coding
HumanEval99%
SWE-bench Verified76.8%
LiveCodeBench85%
SWE-bench Pro70%
SWE-Rebench57.4%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro78.5%
OfficeQA Pro77%
Reasoning
MuSR86%
BBH91%
LongBench v261%
MRCRv281%
KnowledgeKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins
MMLU92%
GPQA87.6%30.6%
SuperGPQA88%
MMLU-Pro87.1%20.0%
HLE27%
FrontierScience80%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction FollowingKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins
IFEval94%77.0%
Multilingual
MGSM96%
MMLU-ProX86%
Mathematics
AIME 202394%
AIME 202496%
AIME 202596.1%
HMMT Feb 202390%
HMMT Feb 202492%
HMMT Feb 202595.4%
BRUMO 202593%
MATH-50092%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) or LFM2.5-350M?

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 76 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 87.1% and 20.0%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) or LFM2.5-350M?

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.9 versus 23.8. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) or LFM2.5-350M?

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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