LFM2.5-350M vs Nova Pro

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

LFM2.5-350M· Nova Pro

Quick Verdict

Pick LFM2.5-350M if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nova Pro only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

LFM2.5-350M is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 39 to 34. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

LFM2.5-350M's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 77 against 66. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 20.0% to 53%. Nova Pro does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Nova Pro gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A141 t/s
TTFTN/A0.81s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkLFM2.5-350MNova Pro
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.031%
BrowseComp39%
OSWorld-Verified32%
Coding
HumanEval33%
SWE-bench Verified19%
LiveCodeBench14%
SWE-bench Pro20%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro37%
OfficeQA Pro46%
Reasoning
MuSR37%
LongBench v251%
KnowledgeNova Pro wins
GPQA30.6%40%
MMLU-Pro20.0%53%
MMLU41%
SuperGPQA38%
FrontierScience41%
SimpleQA39%
Instruction FollowingLFM2.5-350M wins
IFEval77.0%66%
Multilingual
MGSM61%
MMLU-ProX60%
Mathematics
AIME 202341%
AIME 202443%
AIME 202542%
HMMT Feb 202337%
HMMT Feb 202439%
HMMT Feb 202538%
BRUMO 202540%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, LFM2.5-350M or Nova Pro?

LFM2.5-350M is ahead overall, 39 to 34. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 20.0% and 53%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, LFM2.5-350M or Nova Pro?

Nova Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.5 versus 23.8. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, LFM2.5-350M or Nova Pro?

LFM2.5-350M has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77 versus 66. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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