Llama 3 70B vs LFM2-24B-A2B

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

Llama 3 70B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Llama 3 70B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 59.6 against 46.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 61 to 45. LFM2-24B-A2B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Llama 3 70B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2-24B-A2B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 3 70B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2-24B-A2B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

41.2

LFM2-24B-A2B

33.4

37
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
48
BrowseComp
38
41
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

LFM2-24B-A2B

Llama 3 70B

15.8

LFM2-24B-A2B

18

50
HumanEval
42
9
SWE-bench Verified
18
19
LiveCodeBench
17
14
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

52.3

LFM2-24B-A2B

41.7

50
MMMU-Pro
39
55
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

59.6

LFM2-24B-A2B

46.6

56
SimpleQA
44
54
MuSR
42
74
BBH
63
61
LongBench v2
48
61
MRCRv2
45

Knowledge

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

42.2

LFM2-24B-A2B

35.6

58
MMLU
46
58
GPQA
45
56
SuperGPQA
43
54
OpenBookQA
41
55
MMLU-Pro
51
2
HLE
4
54
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

77

LFM2-24B-A2B

68

77
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

67.5

LFM2-24B-A2B

61.4

72
MGSM
64
65
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

63.3

LFM2-24B-A2B

50.4

58
AIME 2023
46
60
AIME 2024
48
59
AIME 2025
47
54
HMMT Feb 2023
42
56
HMMT Feb 2024
44
55
HMMT Feb 2025
43
57
BRUMO 2025
45
71
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 3 70B is ahead overall, 45 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 61 and 45.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.2 versus 35.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

LFM2-24B-A2B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 18 versus 15.8. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 63.3 versus 50.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59.6 versus 46.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.2 versus 33.4. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.3 versus 41.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Llama 3 70B or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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