LFM2.5-350M vs o4-mini (high)

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· o4-mini (high)

Quick Verdict

Pick o4-mini (high) 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.

o4-mini (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 58 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o4-mini (high)'s sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 62.7 against 23.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 20.0% to 76%.

o4-mini (high) 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. o4-mini (high) gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for LFM2.5-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A161 t/s
TTFTN/A21.94s
Context32K200K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkLFM2.5-350Mo4-mini (high)
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.058%
BrowseComp64%
OSWorld-Verified55%
Coding
HumanEval74%
SWE-bench Verified68.1%
LiveCodeBench34%
SWE-bench Pro42%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro66%
OfficeQA Pro71%
Reasoning
MuSR78%
BBH83%
LongBench v275%
MRCRv274%
ARC-AGI-22.4%
Knowledgeo4-mini (high) wins
GPQA30.6%82%
MMLU-Pro20.0%76%
MMLU82%
SuperGPQA80%
HLE13%
FrontierScience73%
SimpleQA80%
Instruction Followingo4-mini (high) wins
IFEval77.0%83%
Multilingual
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX81%
Mathematics
AIME 202383%
AIME 202493.4%
AIME 202592.7%
HMMT Feb 202379%
HMMT Feb 202481%
HMMT Feb 202580%
BRUMO 202582%
MATH-50084%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, LFM2.5-350M or o4-mini (high)?

o4-mini (high) is ahead overall, 58 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 20.0% and 76%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, LFM2.5-350M or o4-mini (high)?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.7 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 o4-mini (high)?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 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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