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

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 30. 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 32.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 59 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.

Llama 4 Maverick gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 4 Maverick 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 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

40.9

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

37
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
51
BrowseComp
31
38
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

15.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

38
HumanEval
14
13
SWE-bench Verified
9
15
LiveCodeBench
8
17
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

56.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

59
MMMU-Pro
27
54
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

54

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

44
SimpleQA
24
42
MuSR
22
63
BBH
59
63
LongBench v2
34
63
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

36.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

46
MMLU
26
45
GPQA
25
43
SuperGPQA
23
41
OpenBookQA
21
53
MMLU-Pro
50
4
HLE
1
45
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

68

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

68
IFEval
80

Multilingual

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

59.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

63
MGSM
62
58
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

51.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

46
AIME 2023
24
48
AIME 2024
26
47
AIME 2025
25
42
HMMT Feb 2023
20
44
HMMT Feb 2024
22
43
HMMT Feb 2025
21
45
BRUMO 2025
23
59
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Llama 4 Maverick is ahead overall, 43 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 59 and 27.

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

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 36.5 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 15.7 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 51.3 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 32.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 40.9 versus 25.7. 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 LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.8 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 Maverick 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 Maverick or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.7 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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