Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Mistral Large 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 59 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Mistral Large 2's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 73.8 against 37. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 60 to 14.
Mistral Large 2 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.
Pick Mistral Large 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Mistral Large 2
52.2
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
25.7
Mistral Large 2
41.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
7.2
Mistral Large 2
61
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.4
Mistral Large 2
67.5
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
32.1
Mistral Large 2
54.6
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
26
Mistral Large 2
83
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
80
Mistral Large 2
79.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
60.7
Mistral Large 2
73.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
37
Mistral Large 2 is ahead overall, 59 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 60 and 14.
Mistral Large 2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.6 versus 26. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 2 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.8 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 73.8 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 2 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 67.5 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.2 versus 25.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 2 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mistral Large 2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.1 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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