Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 30 versus 27. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 80 against 67. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is IFEval, 80 to 67.
Ministral 3 3B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.
Pick LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
25.7
Ministral 3 3B
22.9
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
7.2
Ministral 3 3B
6.2
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.4
Ministral 3 3B
30.4
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.1
Ministral 3 3B
30.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
26
Ministral 3 3B
24.5
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
80
Ministral 3 3B
67
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
60.7
Ministral 3 3B
59.7
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
37
Ministral 3 3B
36
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct is ahead overall, 30 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is IFEval, where the scores are 80 and 67.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 26 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 7.2 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 37 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 32.1 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 25.7 versus 22.9. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 32.4 versus 30.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.7 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.
Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.