Llama 4 Maverick vs LFM2-24B-A2B

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

Llama 4 Maverick is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 43 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Llama 4 Maverick's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 56.8 against 41.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 59 to 39. LFM2-24B-A2B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

LFM2-24B-A2B is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.03 input / $0.12 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Llama 4 Maverick. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Llama 4 Maverick gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for LFM2-24B-A2B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 4 Maverick if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2-24B-A2B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

40.9

LFM2-24B-A2B

33.4

37
Terminal-Bench 2.0
30
51
BrowseComp
38
38
OSWorld-Verified
34

Coding

LFM2-24B-A2B

Llama 4 Maverick

15.7

LFM2-24B-A2B

18

38
HumanEval
42
13
SWE-bench Verified
18
15
LiveCodeBench
17
17
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

56.8

LFM2-24B-A2B

41.7

59
MMMU-Pro
39
54
OfficeQA Pro
45

Reasoning

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

54

LFM2-24B-A2B

46.6

44
SimpleQA
44
42
MuSR
42
63
BBH
63
63
LongBench v2
48
63
MRCRv2
45

Knowledge

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

36.5

LFM2-24B-A2B

35.6

46
MMLU
46
45
GPQA
45
43
SuperGPQA
43
41
OpenBookQA
41
53
MMLU-Pro
51
4
HLE
4
45
FrontierScience
43

Instruction Following

Tie

Llama 4 Maverick

68

LFM2-24B-A2B

68

68
IFEval
68

Multilingual

LFM2-24B-A2B

Llama 4 Maverick

59.8

LFM2-24B-A2B

61.4

63
MGSM
64
58
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

51.3

LFM2-24B-A2B

50.4

46
AIME 2023
46
48
AIME 2024
48
47
AIME 2025
47
42
HMMT Feb 2023
42
44
HMMT Feb 2024
44
43
HMMT Feb 2025
43
45
BRUMO 2025
45
59
MATH-500
57

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Llama 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 4 Maverick is ahead overall, 43 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 59 and 39.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 36.5 versus 35.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Llama 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

LFM2-24B-A2B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 18 versus 15.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 51.3 versus 50.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Llama 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 46.6. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Llama 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 40.9 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 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.8 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 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

Llama 4 Maverick and LFM2-24B-A2B are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 68 on average.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Llama 4 Maverick or LFM2-24B-A2B?

LFM2-24B-A2B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.4 versus 59.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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