Benchmark Almanac

Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 ranks first on 3 of the 152 benchmarks it has scores on.

Moonshot AI Released 27 Jan 2026 Family Kimi K2 The lab's model card
155
Benchmarks with a score
3
Ranked first, out of five or more models
14
In the top three
Moonshot AI Jan 2026

Kimi K2.5

Open weights Flagship

148.1 #71 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • Humanity's Last Exam 24.4% #17 /47
  • SWE-bench Verified 73.8% #18 /32
  • Terminal-Bench 2.0 43.2% #22 /43

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MMLU-Pro 87.1% #9 of 151 Model card
Fiction.LiveBench 86.1% #7 of 57 Epoch AI
LMArena (Elo) 1,450 #63 of 333 Official leaderboard
Seal-0 57.4% #1 of 5 Model card
EQ-Bench 3 1,530 #16 of 78 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 74.9 #28 of 119 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 47.3% #29 of 107 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 52% #41 of 122 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 24.4% #17 of 47 Official leaderboard
LongBench v2 61% #10 of 27 Model card
SimpleVQA 71.2% #9 of 23 Model card
CL-bench 19.3% #10 of 24 Official leaderboard
MultiChallenge 61.4% #15 of 35 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 70.4 #52 of 120 Official leaderboard
MultiNRC 35.2% #18 of 38 Official leaderboard
Phare 67% #30 of 62 Official leaderboard
AdvancedIF 75.6% #3 of 6 Model card
Extended NYT Connections 69.9% #52 of 97 Official leaderboard
CL-bench Life 13.2% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
WideSearch 72.7% #10 of 17 Model card
SkateBench v2 57.2% #13 of 21 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 34.3% #56 of 84 Epoch AI
Document Arena 1,436 #31 of 37 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 14.2% #91 of 104 Official leaderboard
LOCA-Bench 4.00% #8 of 9 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AIME 2025 96.1% #20 of 143 Model card
BRUMO 2025 98.3% #7 of 42 Official leaderboard
CMIMC 2025 90.6% #7 of 33 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2025 95.4% #12 of 49 Model card
SMT 2025 90.6% #10 of 40 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 92.2% #54 of 202 Epoch AI
GPQA Diamond 87.6% #60 of 219 Epoch AI
FrontierMath 27.9% #21 of 70 Epoch AI
AIME 2026 95.8% #13 of 31 Official leaderboard
General365 56.4% #10 of 23 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 4.20% #26 of 55 Epoch AI
CritPt 3.14% #76 of 160 Epoch AI
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 8.85% #23 of 47 Official leaderboard
IMO-AnswerBench 81.8% #21 of 37 Model card
SimpleBench 46.8% #57 of 100 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 11.8% #55 of 95 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 65.3% #54 of 92 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2026 87.1% #19 of 31 Official leaderboard
HMMT Nov 2025 89.2% #15 of 22 Official leaderboard
ResearchClawBench 14.0 #19 of 23 Official leaderboard
Echo General AI Prediction Leaderboard 920 #17 of 17 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
PaperBench 63.5% #2 of 14 Model card
LiveSQLBench 32.2% #7 of 36 Official leaderboard
StructEval 77.3% #6 of 28 Official leaderboard
SciCode 48.7% #11 of 47 Model card
LiveCodeBench v6 85% #20 of 76 Model card
OJBench 57% #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
IOI (Vals) 17.7% #25 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multilingual 73% #35 of 70 Model card
WeirdML 45.6% #61 of 112 Official leaderboard
OpenHands Index 49.2% #18 of 33 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,436 #58 of 105 Epoch AI
ALE-Bench 822 #67 of 121 Epoch AI
Code Arena 1,436 #69 of 124 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 73.8% #18 of 32 Epoch AI
FrontierCode 6.86% #8 of 12 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 10.3% #17 of 23 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 17.5% #88 of 115 Official leaderboard
TasteVal 8.60× #16 of 20 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,439 #46 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 50.7% #65 of 77 Model card
SlopCodeBench 9.69% #12 of 14 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 6.96% #67 of 78 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Refactoring 20.9% #15 of 17 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas 13.1% #20 of 22 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Test Writing 25.8% #21 of 22 Official leaderboard
Vals RSI Index 0.07 #25 of 25 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
PinchBench 75.2% #11 of 48 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 1851.7 #44 of 133 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 63.3% #3 of 9 Epoch AI
OSWorld-Verified 63.3% #13 of 33 Official leaderboard
GameWorld 37.4% #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 25 #85 of 183 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 111 #61 of 124 Official leaderboard
Claw-Eval-Live 53.3% #6 of 12 Official leaderboard
Pencil Puzzle Bench 3.30% #27 of 53 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.0 43.2% #22 of 43 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 74.9% #40 of 77 Model card
Claw-Eval 74.9% #14 of 23 Official leaderboard
MobileWorld 49.6% #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
WebArena 58.9% #5 of 8 Model card
Toolathlon 27.8% #33 of 50 Official leaderboard
MCP Atlas 64.4% #25 of 34 Official leaderboard
DeepSearchQA 77.1% #17 of 22 Model card
Claw-Eval Pass^3 52.3% #18 of 23 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 2.0 54.6% #45 of 57 Official leaderboard
BalatroBench 5.33 #13 of 16 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon-Verified 33% #25 of 25 Official leaderboard
ClawBench 17.6% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
CUA-World-Long 5.50% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard
Swarm Bench 58.3% #2 of 2 Model card
xbench-DeepSearch-2510 46% #2 of 2 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CorpFin v2 68.3% #10 of 119 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v1 49.2% #7 of 47 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 74.2% #39 of 129 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 51.8% #24 of 72 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 66.5% #31 of 86 Official leaderboard
FinSearchComp 67.8% #3 of 7 Model card
CaseLaw v2 58.7% #28 of 53 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent 50.6% #28 of 49 Official leaderboard
prinzbench 35.0 #15 of 26 Official leaderboard
PRBench 43.8% #26 of 44 Official leaderboard
MedCode 39.3% #64 of 96 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 76.4% #69 of 98 Official leaderboard
SpreadsheetBench 2 14.6% #6 of 8 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 15.9% #67 of 88 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $1,198 #51 of 66 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 0% #65 of 80 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 35.8% #69 of 80 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 28.5% #66 of 76 Official leaderboard
FORTE 55.6% #19 of 21 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
InfographicVQA 92.6% #1 of 22 Model card
MathVista 90.1% #3 of 64 Model card
MMMU 84.3% #5 of 97 Model card
BLINK 78.9% #3 of 28 Model card
OCRBench 92.3% #3 of 28 Model card
VideoMME v2 (with subtitles) 40.7% #4 of 31 Official leaderboard
Video-MMMU 86.6% #6 of 30 Model card
MMVU 80.4% #4 of 20 Model card
MMVP 87% #1 of 5 Model card
MMMU-Pro 78.5% #18 of 72 Model card
LongVideoBench 79.8% #3 of 11 Model card
Video-MME 87.4% #12 of 42 Model card
Vision Arena 1,252 #42 of 136 Official leaderboard
MDPBench 77.5 #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
MATH-Vision (MathVision) 84.2% #15 of 42 Model card
OmniDocBench v1.5 89.3 #4 of 10 Official leaderboard
LVBench 75.9% #12 of 25 Model card
Math Kangaroo 2025 (MathArena) 80.6% #11 of 22 Official leaderboard
Claw-Eval-MM 50.2% #6 of 11 Official leaderboard
MotionBench 70.4% #5 of 9 Model card
VISTA 41.9% #31 of 54 Official leaderboard
BabyVision 36.5% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 77.5% #40 of 67 Model card
EnigmaEval 3.38% #26 of 41 Epoch AI
ZeroBench 9.00% #21 of 25 Model card
OmniDocBench v1.6 84.5 #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
WorldVQA 46.3% #9 of 9 Model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Agentic BAIM-LLM Evaluation (ABLE) 82.5% #3 of 16 Official leaderboard
BinaryAudit 24.6% #10 of 20 Official leaderboard
KORA 38.5% #23 of 42 Official leaderboard
SMDD-Bench 30.3% #4 of 7 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 41.3% #20 of 33 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 41.1% #45 of 66 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 43.4% #53 of 71 Official leaderboard
SEC-bench Pro 2.20% #5 of 6 Official leaderboard
SEC-bench Pro 260617 2.30% #5 of 6 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SAGE (Vals) 49.9% #19 of 81 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 24.9 #43 of 66 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 65.5 #57 of 65 Official leaderboard

Moonshot AI's models over time

Moonshot AI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Kimi K3 Kimi K2.7 Code Kimi K2 Thinking Kimi K2 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Kimi K3 Kimi K2.5

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 11 of them aren't in the launch post.

Hallucination

Cyber risk

AI R&D risk