Qwen2.5-1M vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

Qwen2.5-1M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 66 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-1M's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 80.9 against 32.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 76 to 14.

Qwen2.5-1M gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-1M 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

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

64.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

65
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
72
BrowseComp
31
59
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

44.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

76
HumanEval
14
47
SWE-bench Verified
9
40
LiveCodeBench
8
49
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

68.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

63
MMMU-Pro
27
75
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.9

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

81
SimpleQA
24
79
MuSR
22
82
BBH
59
82
LongBench v2
34
81
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

60.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

84
MMLU
26
83
GPQA
25
81
SuperGPQA
23
79
OpenBookQA
21
74
MMLU-Pro
50
10
HLE
1
74
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

84

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

84
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

81
MGSM
62
80
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

83.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

85
AIME 2023
24
87
AIME 2024
26
86
AIME 2025
25
81
HMMT Feb 2023
20
83
HMMT Feb 2024
22
82
HMMT Feb 2025
21
84
BRUMO 2025
23
83
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M is ahead overall, 66 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 76 and 14.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.8 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.6 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.7 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, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.4 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen2.5-1M or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.4 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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