Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Mistral 8x7B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 48 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Mistral 8x7B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 68.1 against 37. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 55 to 14. 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.
Pick Mistral 8x7B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Mistral 8x7B
41.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
25.7
Mistral 8x7B
25.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
7.2
Mistral 8x7B
48.3
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.4
Mistral 8x7B
60.3
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.1
Mistral 8x7B
48.4
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
26
Mistral 8x7B
78
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
80
Mistral 8x7B
72.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
60.7
Mistral 8x7B
68.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
37
Mistral 8x7B is ahead overall, 48 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 55 and 14.
Mistral 8x7B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.4 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral 8x7B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 25.8 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral 8x7B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 68.1 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral 8x7B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.3 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral 8x7B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.1 versus 25.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral 8x7B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.3 versus 32.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA 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 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral 8x7B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.1 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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