Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 35 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 40 against 7.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 71.4 to 26. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 gives you the larger context window at 64K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority.

Agentic

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

31.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

35
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
32
BrowseComp
31
28
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

40

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

54.8
HumanEval
14
40
SWE-bench Pro
6
Coming soon
SWE-bench Verified
9
Coming soon
LiveCodeBench
8

Multimodal & Grounded

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

35.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

35
MMMU-Pro
27
36
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

38.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

39
LongBench v2
34
38
MRCRv2
37
Coming soon
SimpleQA
24
Coming soon
MuSR
22
Coming soon
BBH
59

Knowledge

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

53

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

71.4
MMLU
26
53
FrontierScience
30
Coming soon
GPQA
25
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
23
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
21
Coming soon
MMLU-Pro
50
Coming soon
HLE
1

Instruction Following

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
IFEval
80

Multilingual

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

42

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

42
MMLU-ProX
60
Coming soon
MGSM
62

Mathematics

Coming soon

Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

Coming soon
AIME 2023
24
Coming soon
AIME 2024
26
Coming soon
AIME 2025
25
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2023
20
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2024
22
Coming soon
HMMT Feb 2025
21
Coming soon
BRUMO 2025
23
Coming soon
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 is ahead overall, 35 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 71.4 and 26.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 40 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 38.6 versus 32.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 31.8 versus 25.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 35.5 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.7 versus 42. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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