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

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 33. 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 38.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 76 to 17.

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen2.5-1M is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen2.5-1M gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking.

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-1M if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Agentic

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

64.7

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

34.1

65
Terminal-Bench 2.0
34
72
BrowseComp
37
59
OSWorld-Verified
32

Coding

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

44.8

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

8.2

76
HumanEval
17
47
SWE-bench Verified
10
40
LiveCodeBench
9
49
SWE-bench Pro
7

Multimodal & Grounded

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

68.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

32.4

63
MMMU-Pro
27
75
OfficeQA Pro
39

Reasoning

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.9

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

38.4

81
SimpleQA
29
79
MuSR
31
82
BBH
67
82
LongBench v2
39
81
MRCRv2
42

Knowledge

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

60.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

27

84
MMLU
27
83
GPQA
26
81
SuperGPQA
24
79
OpenBookQA
22
74
MMLU-Pro
51
10
HLE
2
74
FrontierScience
31

Instruction Following

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

84

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

72

84
IFEval
72

Multilingual

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

80.4

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

60.7

81
MGSM
62
80
MMLU-ProX
60

Mathematics

Qwen2.5-1M

Qwen2.5-1M

83.6

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking

42.3

85
AIME 2023
28
87
AIME 2024
30
86
AIME 2025
29
81
HMMT Feb 2023
24
83
HMMT Feb 2024
26
82
HMMT Feb 2025
25
84
BRUMO 2025
27
83
MATH-500
61

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Qwen2.5-1M is ahead overall, 66 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 76 and 17.

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

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 27. 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-Thinking?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44.8 versus 8.2. 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-Thinking?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 83.6 versus 42.3. 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-Thinking?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 38.4. 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-Thinking?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.7 versus 34.1. Inside this category, BrowseComp 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-Thinking?

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-Thinking?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 72. 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-Thinking?

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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