Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) vs LFM2.5 24B A2B, head to head

Side A

Side B

Overall

Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) is clearly better. It wins 37 of the 41 test cases where they differ.

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Task by task

A score turns orange only when that model wins clearly more of the task's test cases. Under each score, the average time per test case on the machine it ran on. LFM2.5 24B A2B spends 1.4× as many thinking tokens per test case.

Thinking tokensAnswer tokens

TaskAApodex 1.1 Mini (free)BLFM2.5 24B A2BApodex 1.1 Mini (free)LFM2.5 24B A2B

Overall

2535.1s

8.5K9.2K

71m 53s

Agents

Runs multi-step jobs through tools, within a written policy

2639.4s

6.2K18.5K

123m 49s

Structured Extraction

Turns logs, diffs and records into exact JSON

5227.2s

7.7K4.4K

1054.9s

Coding

Writes code and SQL that pass hidden tests

446.5s

12.1K6.1K

11m 15s

Grounded Answers

Answers from the given documents with sources, never guesses

2926.0s

6.9K4.7K

557.8s

Instruction Following

Applies every rule, including ones changed mid-conversation

3644.5s

11.4K13.4K

162m 44s

Business Logic

Computes billing, scheduling and pricing rules exactly

1435.4s

10K5K

51m 2s

Security & permissions

Ignores planted instructions, still does the allowed work

4027.3s

5.8K9K

101m 52s

Diagnosis & investigation

Chooses diagnostic checks, repairs supported causes and verifies recovery

034.6s

5.1K19.9K

04m 12s

What you'd run

The build behind each score. Orange marks the faster, smaller, cheaper or longer-context side.

SpecAApodex 1.1 Mini (free)BLFM2.5 24B A2B

Speed

278 tok/s

82 tok/s

Machine

Hosted

Apple M5 Pro, 48 GB

Memory at 32K

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25.0 GB

Context

256K

128K

Cost per run

Not measured

Cost per case

Not measured

Time per case

35.1s

1m 53s

Quantization

BF16

Q8_0

Harness

openrouter

llama.cpp

The race

No lead changes

Each model's running score as the test cases go by. The dashed line is a perfect run.

Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)LFM2.5 24B A2B

Every test case

153 test cases

Each square is one test case, colored by the model that scored higher.

Agents51

Structured Extraction90

Coding12

Grounded Answers50

Instruction Following71

Business Logic20

Security & permissions80

Diagnosis & investigation00

37 won by Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)4 won by LFM2.5 24B A2B112 tied