Llama 4 Behemoth vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

Llama 4 Behemoth is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 40 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Llama 4 Behemoth's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 55.1 against 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 60 to 27. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 4 Behemoth if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Agentic

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

34.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

33
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
38
BrowseComp
31
34
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

14.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

40
HumanEval
14
15
SWE-bench Verified
9
13
LiveCodeBench
8
15
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

55.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

60
MMMU-Pro
27
49
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

47.1

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

46
SimpleQA
24
44
MuSR
22
62
BBH
59
46
LongBench v2
34
46
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

36.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

48
MMLU
26
47
GPQA
25
45
SuperGPQA
23
43
OpenBookQA
21
54
MMLU-Pro
50
3
HLE
1
43
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Llama 4 Behemoth

68

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

68
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

62.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

66
MGSM
62
61
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Llama 4 Behemoth

Llama 4 Behemoth

52.9

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

48
AIME 2023
24
50
AIME 2024
26
49
AIME 2025
25
44
HMMT Feb 2023
20
46
HMMT Feb 2024
22
45
HMMT Feb 2025
21
47
BRUMO 2025
23
60
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Behemoth is ahead overall, 40 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 60 and 27.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 36.7 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.1 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 52.9 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 47.1 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 34.6 versus 25.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.1 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Llama 4 Behemoth or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Behemoth has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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