LFM2.5-350M vs o1-preview

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· o1-preview

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-350M only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 72 to 39. 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 knowledge, where it averages 72.7 against 23.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 20.0% to 80%.

o1-preview is the reasoning model in the pair, while LFM2.5-350M 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. o1-preview gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K200K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkLFM2.5-350Mo1-preview
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.077%
BrowseComp79%
OSWorld-Verified71%
Coding
HumanEval86%
SWE-bench Verified65%
LiveCodeBench60%
SWE-bench Pro69%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro72%
OfficeQA Pro80%
Reasoning
MuSR86%
BBH93%
LongBench v287%
MRCRv283%
Knowledgeo1-preview wins
GPQA30.6%90%
MMLU-Pro20.0%80%
MMLU92%
SuperGPQA88%
HLE32%
FrontierScience83%
SimpleQA88%
Instruction Followingo1-preview wins
IFEval77.0%88%
Multilingual
MGSM90%
MMLU-ProX86%
Mathematics
AIME 202394%
AIME 202496%
AIME 202595%
HMMT Feb 202390%
HMMT Feb 202492%
HMMT Feb 202591%
BRUMO 202593%
MATH-50094%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, LFM2.5-350M or o1-preview?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 72 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 20.0% and 80%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, LFM2.5-350M or o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.7 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 o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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