Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 32 versus 30. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Ministral 3 8B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 14.2 against 7.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is IFEval, 69 to 80. 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.
Ministral 3 8B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.
Pick Ministral 3 8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Ministral 3 8B
28.9
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
25.7
Ministral 3 8B
14.2
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
7.2
Ministral 3 8B
32.4
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.4
Ministral 3 8B
36.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.1
Ministral 3 8B
28
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
26
Ministral 3 8B
69
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
80
Ministral 3 8B
61.7
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
60.7
Ministral 3 8B
43.3
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
37
Ministral 3 8B is ahead overall, 32 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is IFEval, where the scores are 69 and 80.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 28 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 14.2 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 43.3 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2025 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 36.1 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 28.9 versus 25.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B and LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct are effectively tied for multimodal and grounded tasks here, both landing at 32.4 on average.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 69. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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