# LFM2.5-230M vs LFM2.5-VL-450M

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LFM2.5-230M and LFM2.5-VL-450M across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lfm2-5-230m-vs-lfm2-5-vl-450m
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick LFM2.5-VL-450M if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-230M only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- LFM2.5-VL-450M leads overall 37 to 34.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is IFEval in Instruction Following, with scores of 71.7% and 61.2%.
- LFM2.5-VL-450M also has the larger context window at 128K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LFM2.5-230M | LFM2.5-VL-450M |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LiquidAI | LiquidAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 32K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 21.0% | 21.1% | LFM2.5-VL-450M |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 32.7% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 58.4% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 25.4% | 25.7% | LFM2.5-VL-450M |
| GPQA-D | 25.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 20.3% | 19.3% | LFM2.5-230M |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: 10.4 (#123/124)
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 71.7% | 61.2% | LFM2.5-230M |
| IFBench | 38.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LFM2.5-230M or LFM2.5-VL-450M?

LFM2.5-VL-450M is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does LFM2.5-230M cover on BenchLM?

LFM2.5-230M currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does LFM2.5-VL-450M cover on BenchLM?

LFM2.5-VL-450M currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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