Qwen2.5-72B vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

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

Qwen2.5-72B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 30. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-72B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 83.5 against 37. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 75 to 14.

Qwen2.5-72B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-72B 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

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

57.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

25.7

56
Terminal-Bench 2.0
22
64
BrowseComp
31
55
OSWorld-Verified
26

Coding

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

43.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

7.2

75
HumanEval
14
46
SWE-bench Verified
9
40
LiveCodeBench
8
47
SWE-bench Pro
6

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

66.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.4

64
MMMU-Pro
27
70
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

75.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

32.1

80
SimpleQA
24
78
MuSR
22
81
BBH
59
72
LongBench v2
34
71
MRCRv2
37

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

59.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

26

83
MMLU
26
82
GPQA
25
80
SuperGPQA
23
78
OpenBookQA
21
75
MMLU-Pro
50
11
HLE
1
70
FrontierScience
30

Instruction Following

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

85

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

80

85
IFEval
80

Multilingual

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

80.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

60.7

84
MGSM
62
79
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B

83.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct

37

84
AIME 2023
24
86
AIME 2024
26
85
AIME 2025
25
80
HMMT Feb 2023
20
82
HMMT Feb 2024
22
81
HMMT Feb 2025
21
83
BRUMO 2025
23
84
MATH-500
54

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B is ahead overall, 64 to 30. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 75 and 14.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.8 versus 26. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.8 versus 7.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.5 versus 37. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.8 versus 32.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.7 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, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.7 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen2.5-72B or LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 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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