o1-preview vs LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

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

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-preview's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 64.6 against 8.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 86 to 17.

o1-preview gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Agentic

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

34.1

77
Terminal-Bench 2.0
34
79
BrowseComp
37
71
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

o1-preview

o1-preview

64.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

8.2

86
HumanEval
17
65
SWE-bench Verified
10
60
LiveCodeBench
9
69
SWE-bench Pro
7

Multimodal & Grounded

o1-preview

o1-preview

75.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

32.4

72
MMMU-Pro
27
80
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

o1-preview

o1-preview

86.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

38.4

88
SimpleQA
29
86
MuSR
31
93
BBH
67
87
LongBench v2
39
83
MRCRv2
42

Knowledge

o1-preview

o1-preview

71.3

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

27

92
MMLU
27
90
GPQA
26
88
SuperGPQA
24
86
OpenBookQA
22
80
MMLU-Pro
51
32
HLE
2
83
FrontierScience
31

Instruction Following

o1-preview

o1-preview

88

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

72

88
IFEval
72

Multilingual

o1-preview

o1-preview

87.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

60.7

90
MGSM
62
86
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

o1-preview

o1-preview

93.5

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

42.3

94
AIME 2023
28
96
AIME 2024
30
95
AIME 2025
29
90
HMMT Feb 2023
24
92
HMMT Feb 2024
26
91
HMMT Feb 2025
25
93
BRUMO 2025
27
94
MATH-500
61

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 77 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 86 and 17.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.3 versus 27. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.6 versus 8.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 93.5 versus 42.3. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 86.8 versus 38.4. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.4 versus 34.1. 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, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.6 versus 32.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 72. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o1-preview or LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking?

o1-preview has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 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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