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LFM2.5-8B-A1B vs Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 12 shared benchmark results across 5 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

41.25/100
Margin
19.8pts
winning →
0 category wins0 category wins

BenchAlign evidence: LFM2.5-8B-A1B estimated; Mistral Medium 3.5 128B not scored. Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. LFM2.5-8B-A1B and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B share 12 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 6 results are unique to LFM2.5-8B-A1B; 12 to Mistral Medium 3.5 128B.

Updated July 16, 2026
Shared results
12
LFM2.5-8B-A1B only
6
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B only
12
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for LFM2.5-8B-A1B and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 12 shared benchmark results across 5 evidence categories; 0 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

BenchLM has partial data for these models, but not enough overlapping benchmark coverage to produce a fair score-level comparison yet.

Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is priced at $1.50 input / $7.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for LFM2.5-8B-A1B. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B has the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for LFM2.5-8B-A1B.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for LFM2.5-8B-A1B and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
CategoryLFM2.5-8B-A1BΔMistral Medium 3.5 128B
CodingLFM2.5-8B-A1BNot measuredMarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128B77.6
MathLFM2.5-8B-A1B50.0MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured
Inst. FollowingLFM2.5-8B-A1B68.8MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot measured

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricLFM2.5-8B-A1BMistral Medium 3.5 128BComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensLFM2.5-8B-A1B$0 input / $0 outputMistral Medium 3.5 128B$1.5 input / $7.5 outputLFM2.5-8B-A1B has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondLFM2.5-8B-A1BNot availableMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenLFM2.5-8B-A1BNot availableMistral Medium 3.5 128BNot availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensLFM2.5-8B-A1B128KMistral Medium 3.5 128B256KMistral Medium 3.5 128B lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkLFM2.5-8B-A1BMistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
BFCL v4Source 49.7%Not comparable
τ²-bench resultsSource 16.1%94.2%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
τ³-bench resultsSource 91.4%Not comparable
AA Agentic IndexSource 19.0%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 21.4%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 929Not comparable
Gert LabsSource 39.10%Not comparable
AA EnterpriseOps-GymSource 33.7%Not comparable
AA Harvey LABSource 0.8%Not comparable
AA Tau3 BankingSource 14.4%Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkLFM2.5-8B-A1BMistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
Terminal-Bench HardSource 4.5%33.3%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
AA-SciCodeSource 7.8%39.6%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 77.6%Not comparable
AA Coding IndexSource 46.9%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkLFM2.5-8B-A1BMistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
AA-LCRSource 0.0%61.0%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
CritPtSource 0.0%0.0%Tie
Knowledge
BenchmarkLFM2.5-8B-A1BMistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 51.3%74.8%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
AA-HLESource 6.9%12.8%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource -33.3%-36.3%LFM2.5-8B-A1B leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 9.4%25.1%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 47.0%82.0%LFM2.5-8B-A1B leads
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 8.3%29.9%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
AA Openness IndexSource 33.3%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkLFM2.5-8B-A1BMistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
MATH-500Source 88.8%Not comparable
AIME 2025Source 42.5%Not comparable
AIME26Source 50.0%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkLFM2.5-8B-A1BMistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
AA-MMMU-ProSource 64.9%Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkLFM2.5-8B-A1BMistral Medium 3.5 128BResult
IFEvalSource 91.8%Not comparable
IFBenchSource 56.5%Not comparable
AA-IFBenchSource 55.6%68.8%Mistral Medium 3.5 128B leads
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare LFM2.5-8B-A1B and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but the sourced benchmark breakdown for this comparison is still coming soon.

Why does this comparison show “coming soon”?

BenchLM only shows category winners and benchmark-level calls when we have sourced results that can be compared fairly. For these models, the public benchmark coverage is not complete enough yet.

What data is available for LFM2.5-8B-A1B and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B today?

LFM2.5-8B-A1B: $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens Mistral Medium 3.5 128B: $1.50 input / $7.50 output per 1M tokens Both model pages still include creator, context window, reasoning mode, and other metadata while benchmark coverage fills in.

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Last updated: July 16, 2026

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