o4-mini (high) vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

o4-mini (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o4-mini (high)'s sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 82.9 against 37. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 74 to 14.

o4-mini (high) gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick o4-mini (high) 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.

Agentic

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

58.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

58
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
64
BrowseComp
31
55
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

38.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

74
HumanEval
14
45
SWE-bench Verified
9
34
LiveCodeBench
8
42
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

68.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

66
MMMU-Pro
27
71
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

77.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

80
SimpleQA
24
78
MuSR
22
83
BBH
59
75
LongBench v2
34
74
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

61.2

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

82
MMLU
26
82
GPQA
25
80
SuperGPQA
23
78
OpenBookQA
21
76
MMLU-Pro
50
13
HLE
1
73
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

83

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

83
IFEval
80

Multilingual

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

81.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

83
MGSM
62
81
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

o4-mini (high)

o4-mini (high)

82.9

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

83
AIME 2023
24
85
AIME 2024
26
84
AIME 2025
25
79
HMMT Feb 2023
20
81
HMMT Feb 2024
22
80
HMMT Feb 2025
21
82
BRUMO 2025
23
84
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) is ahead overall, 63 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 74 and 14.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.2 versus 26. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 38.7 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 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, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.3 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) 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.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o4-mini (high) or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.7 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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