Moonshot v1 vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

Moonshot v1 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 47 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Moonshot v1's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 61 against 37. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 45 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.

Moonshot v1 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Moonshot v1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Agentic

Moonshot v1

Moonshot v1

42.2

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

39
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
49
BrowseComp
31
41
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Moonshot v1

Moonshot v1

26.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

45
HumanEval
14
34
SWE-bench Verified
9
21
LiveCodeBench
8
30
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Moonshot v1

Moonshot v1

52.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

49
MMMU-Pro
27
57
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Moonshot v1

Moonshot v1

55.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

51
SimpleQA
24
49
MuSR
22
73
BBH
59
58
LongBench v2
34
56
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Moonshot v1

Moonshot v1

42.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

53
MMLU
26
52
GPQA
25
50
SuperGPQA
23
48
OpenBookQA
21
64
MMLU-Pro
50
5
HLE
1
49
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

Moonshot v1

77

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

77
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Moonshot v1

Moonshot v1

69.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

73
MGSM
62
68
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Moonshot v1

Moonshot v1

61

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

53
AIME 2023
24
55
AIME 2024
26
54
AIME 2025
25
49
HMMT Feb 2023
20
51
HMMT Feb 2024
22
50
HMMT Feb 2025
21
52
BRUMO 2025
23
72
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Moonshot v1 is ahead overall, 47 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 45 and 14.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.3 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 26.4 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 55.5 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.2 versus 25.7. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.6 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Moonshot v1 or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.8 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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