# LFM2.5-VL-450M vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LFM2.5-VL-450M and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lfm2-5-vl-450m-vs-qwen3-5-35b-a3b
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-VL-450M only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B leads overall 46.36 to 38.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro in Knowledge, with scores of 19.3% and 85.3%.
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LiquidAI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 46.36 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 31.4 (Estimated · #78/119)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 21.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 54.5% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 28.96% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 27.3 (Estimated · #97/144)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 69.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 53.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 41.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 68.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 32.7% | 81.4% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| RealWorldQA | 58.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CountBench | 73.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 41.7 (Supported · #97/171)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 25.7% | 84.2% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| MMLU-Pro | 19.3% | 85.3% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 63.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 83.8 (#11/16)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM2.5-VL-450M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 87.4 (#29/125)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 61.2% | 91.9% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LFM2.5-VL-450M or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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