# LFM2.5-VL-450M vs North Micro Vision Instruct

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lfm2-5-vl-450m-vs-north-micro-vision-instruct
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: LFM2.5-VL-450M and North Micro Vision Instruct share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LFM2.5-VL-450M | North Micro Vision Instruct |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LiquidAI | Cohere |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 1 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: 42.2 (Estimated · #105/152)
- North Micro Vision Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | North Micro Vision Instruct | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- North Micro Vision Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | North Micro Vision Instruct | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 32.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 58.4% | 62.2% | North Micro Vision Instruct |
| CountBench | 73.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: 33.7 (Estimated · #166/183)
- North Micro Vision Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | North Micro Vision Instruct | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 25.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 19.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- North Micro Vision Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | North Micro Vision Instruct | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 61.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between LFM2.5-VL-450M and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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