Benchmarks Needle 3 through the shipped CQ2 binary, confidence gate on · baselines at f16 under vLLM · DeepSeek V4 Flash via its cloud API Mobile Actions exact call · 961 rows · accuracy (%) 25 50 75 100 DeepSeek V4 Flash cloud 88.4 Needle3-20L-121M 121M 86.0 LFM2.5 1.2B 1.2B 82.4 Needle3-16L-98M 98M 80.7 Qwen3.5 0.8B 800M 76.0 LFM2.5 350M 350M 72.8 LFM2.5 230M 230M 69.3 FunctionGemma 270M 270M 65.1 Needle 2 45M 63.5 Apple FM 3.0B 57.6 Needle3-8L-52M 52M 36.8 Needle3-4L-29M 29M 11.7 DroidCall exact calls in order · 200 rows · accuracy (%) 25 50 75 100 DeepSeek V4 Flash cloud 60.5 Needle3-20L-121M 121M 47.0 Needle3-16L-98M 98M 40.0 Needle3-8L-52M 52M 36.5 LFM2.5 1.2B 1.2B 35.5 LFM2.5 350M 350M 32.5 Qwen3.5 0.8B 800M 28.0 Needle3-4L-29M 29M 21.0 Needle 2 45M 17.0 FunctionGemma 270M 270M 16.5 LFM2.5 230M 230M 11.5 BFCL v4 AST match · 3,641 rows · accuracy (%) 25 50 75 100 DeepSeek V4 Flash cloud 77.2 LFM2.5 1.2B 1.2B 62.0 LFM2.5 350M 350M 59.1 Qwen3.5 0.8B 800M 56.8 Needle3-20L-121M 121M 50.2 FunctionGemma 270M 270M 46.6 LFM2.5 230M 230M 46.3 Needle3-16L-98M 98M 41.3 Needle3-8L-52M 52M 28.2 Needle3-4L-29M 29M 19.5 DSTC8 field F1 · 1,813 turns · F1 (%) 25 50 75 100 DeepSeek V4 Flash cloud 80.0 LFM2.5 230M 230M 53.0 Qwen3.5 0.8B 800M 49.0 LFM2.5 1.2B 1.2B 48.0 Needle3-20L-121M 121M 40.7 Needle3-16L-98M 98M 28.5 FunctionGemma 270M 270M 27.0 LFM2.5 350M 350M 20.0 Needle3-8L-52M 52M 15.3 Needle3-4L-29M 29M 6.9 SNIPS gold field F1 · 700 rows · F1 (%) 25 50 75 100 DeepSeek V4 Flash cloud 69.4 LFM2.5 1.2B 1.2B 43.0 Qwen3.5 0.8B 800M 35.0 LFM2.5 350M 350M 34.0 Needle3-20L-121M 121M 30.2 FunctionGemma 270M 270M 29.0 LFM2.5 230M 230M 27.0 Needle3-16L-98M 98M 23.5 Needle3-8L-52M 52M 16.6 Needle3-4L-29M 29M 7.7 SNIPS 7-way field F1 · 700 rows · F1 (%) 25 50 75 100 DeepSeek V4 Flash cloud 66.7 LFM2.5 1.2B 1.2B 38.0 Qwen3.5 0.8B 800M 34.0 LFM2.5 350M 350M 29.0 Needle3-20L-121M 121M 24.7 LFM2.5 230M 230M 22.0 Needle3-16L-98M 98M 19.2 FunctionGemma 270M 270M 14.0 Needle3-8L-52M 52M 10.1 Needle3-4L-29M 29M 4.3