Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 36 versus 33. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 15.2 against 8.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 24 to 17. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.
Pick Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
38.5
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
34.1
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
15.2
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
8.2
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
33.4
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
32.4
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
42.1
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
38.4
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
30
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
27
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
70
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
72
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
61.7
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
60.7
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning)
47.8
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
42.3
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 36 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 24 and 17.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 30 versus 27. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 15.2 versus 8.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 47.8 versus 42.3. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.1 versus 38.4. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 38.5 versus 34.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 33.4 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 70. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 8B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 60.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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