Benchmark Almanac

Kimi K3

Kimi K3 ranks first on 5 of the 214 benchmarks it has scores on.

Moonshot AI Released 16 Jul 2026 Family Kimi K3 The lab's model card
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Benchmarks with a score
5
Ranked first, out of five or more models
25
In the top three
Moonshot AI Jul 2026

Kimi K3

Open weights Flagship

158.3 #20 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • MMMU-Pro 81.6% #7 /72
  • DeepSWE 68.5% #8 /28
  • SciCode 58.7% #4 /47

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
Creative Writing v3 81.8 #4 of 120 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,488 #16 of 333 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR (Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning) 74.7% #3 of 31 Model card
Extended NYT Connections 93.6% #11 of 97 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 4 1,319 #4 of 32 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 74% #16 of 122 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 56% #20 of 147 Model card
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 79.6 #17 of 119 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 58.2% #21 of 107 Official leaderboard
AgentIF (2026-10 setting) 64.9% #5 of 24 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 50.6% #27 of 84 Epoch AI
HLE-Diamond 28.3% #14 of 18 Official leaderboard
Chat All-in-One Bench 85.2% #1 of 1 Model card
CLIF Bench 52.4% #1 of 1 Model card
Faithfulness (Moonshot) 85.5% #1 of 1 Model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Surface Evolver Bench 95% #2 of 26 Epoch AI
ProofBench 70% #5 of 59 Official leaderboard
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 65.6% #4 of 47 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 93.1% #21 of 219 Epoch AI
HMMT 2026 97% #4 of 31 Official leaderboard
CritPt 23.4% #24 of 160 Epoch AI
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 97.2% #34 of 202 Epoch AI
DTBench 85.3% #38 of 178 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 94.5% #20 of 92 Official leaderboard
ProofBench v1.1 87% #12 of 51 Official leaderboard
NatureBench 14.4% #5 of 18 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 72.2% #25 of 89 Epoch AI
ExplorationBench 79% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 60.7% #35 of 100 Official leaderboard
BixBench3 47.0 #7 of 20 Official leaderboard
AIME 2026 96.7% #11 of 31 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 60.4% #35 of 95 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 39% #27 of 71 Epoch AI
xbench-ScienceQA 71.2% #13 of 29 Official leaderboard
PaperBenchX 7.53% #5 of 10 Official leaderboard
Prophet Arena 85.1 #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Erdős 0% #10 of 14 Epoch AI
Terminal-Bench-Science 7.14% #13 of 17 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 36.4% #21 of 27 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 64.2 #67 of 86 Official leaderboard
FrontierPhysics 0.60% #17 of 19 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SciCode 58.7% #4 of 47 Model card
WebDev Arena 1,674 #9 of 105 Epoch AI
WeirdML 82.6% #10 of 112 Official leaderboard
AndroidBench 90.2% #4 of 32 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,656 #16 of 124 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 85% #17 of 115 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,524 #24 of 121 Epoch AI
SWE-Bench Pro V2 97.7% #4 of 16 Official leaderboard
SWE Refactor Bench 19.5% #2 of 8 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 68.5% #8 of 28 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon v1.1 48.1% #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
Vision2Web 79% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
MLS-Bench 48.3% #5 of 15 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 44.2% #16 of 46 Epoch AI
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,579 #20 of 55 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 54.4% #11 of 28 Epoch AI
ProgramBench 77.8% #8 of 20 Model card
Tencent WorkBuddy Bench 76.7% #4 of 10 Official leaderboard
GBAEval 48.4% #9 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 Hard 88.2% #7 of 16 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 32% #5 of 11 Epoch AI
PostTrainBench 1.1 32% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
TasteVal 45.3× #10 of 20 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.2 31.5% #9 of 17 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 2 20.8% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE 25.9% #12 of 21 Epoch AI
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 18.2% #15 of 26 Official leaderboard
Brokk Power Ranking 7.70 #11 of 19 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 48.9% #27 of 45 Official leaderboard
Vals RSI Index 0.21 #15 of 25 Official leaderboard
RSI-Exam 38.2% #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon 42% #7 of 11 Model card
Next.js Agent Evals 84% #9 of 14 Official leaderboard
ViBench 2.0 0% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
Kimi Code Bench v2 72.9% #2 of 3 Model card
WeirdML v3 7.54% #17 of 25 Official leaderboard
GameDevBench 58% #7 of 10 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 16.1% #55 of 78 Official leaderboard
DeepRSI 820 #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
Android Bench 2.0 12% #8 of 11 Official leaderboard
Senior SWE-Bench 20.2% #17 of 23 Official leaderboard
RSI Bench 32.8 #6 of 8 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 2.0 17.7% #20 of 26 Official leaderboard
AutoResearchExam 0.43 #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
Code Migration v1.1 28.6% #23 of 29 Official leaderboard
ScarfBench 61.3% #8 of 10 Official leaderboard
SWE-sweep 0.60% #8 of 10 Official leaderboard
OpenDesign Arena 65.7 #19 of 19 Official leaderboard
Coding Experience (Moonshot) 59.9% #1 of 1 Model card
Kimi Webdev Bench 58.6% #1 of 1 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
DeepSearchQA 95% #1 of 22 Model card
CEO-Bench $22,148,357 #1 of 19 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 76.5% #2 of 37 Model card
MobileWorld 74.4% #1 of 18 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp 91.2% #6 of 77 Model card
Toolathlon-Verified 76.5% #2 of 25 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Verified 84.8% #3 of 37 Model card
LisanBench 10520.7 #13 of 133 Official leaderboard
MCPMark 94.5% #1 of 10 Model card
Terminal-Bench 2.1 88.3% #7 of 53 Model card
GAIA 80.4% #8 of 57 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0 56.8% #3 of 15 Official leaderboard
ResearchRubrics 76.2% #1 of 5 Model card
MCP Atlas 82.3% #8 of 34 Official leaderboard
WitnessBench 18.8% #3 of 12 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 26% #36 of 80 Epoch AI
Chess Puzzles 37% #38 of 83 Epoch AI
Hermes Bench 71.5% #8 of 17 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 37.8% #12 of 25 Official leaderboard
τ³-bench Banking 37.1% #12 of 25 Official leaderboard
Agent Arena 0.01 #26 of 53 Official leaderboard
ApprenticeBench 18% #9 of 18 Official leaderboard
Swarm Bench 76.3% #1 of 2 Model card
RecreationBench 31.4% #6 of 10 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.0 58.3% #12 of 19 Model card
AutomationBench 30.8% #27 of 41 Model card
Time Horizon Index: KSP 10.5% #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
tau3-bench 33.4% #12 of 12 Model card
Agent Behavior Bench 65% #1 of 1 Model card
Deep Research Bench (Moonshot) 90% #1 of 1 Model card
KAET (Kimi Autonomous Execution Tasks) 83.5% #1 of 1 Model card
SaaS-Bench 60.1% #1 of 1 Model card

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CorpFin v2 71.6% #3 of 119 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 75.7% #12 of 129 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 57.9% #7 of 72 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 86.2% #16 of 138 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 12.9% #12 of 80 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 88% #15 of 98 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 90.5% #9 of 50 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 33.4% #15 of 79 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 46.1% #17 of 88 Official leaderboard
$OneMillion-Bench 35% #3 of 13 Official leaderboard
MedCode 49.4% #23 of 96 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 68.2% #12 of 50 Official leaderboard
JobBench 54.3% #4 of 16 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 66.7% #21 of 76 Official leaderboard
Immigration Bench 68.3% #7 of 24 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,686 #8 of 26 Model card
Vals Legal Index 71.7% #11 of 33 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 58% #12 of 35 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 71.3% #13 of 37 Official leaderboard
Legora BAR 102.0 #6 of 17 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 66.3% #32 of 86 Official leaderboard
prinzbench 47.0 #10 of 26 Official leaderboard
E-Commerce Bench 2.65 #8 of 19 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 12.9% #14 of 33 Official leaderboard
Ivo-micro1 ContractBench 57.1% #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 53.1% #35 of 80 Official leaderboard
Thrive Holdings helpdesk ticket resolution benchmark 48.1% #7 of 15 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $5,165 #32 of 66 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 38% #13 of 26 Official leaderboard
SpreadsheetBench 2 34.8% #1 of 2 Model card
Holdings-IndividualTaxBench 72.6% #7 of 13 Official leaderboard
FrontierFinance 46.4% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 47.8% #33 of 56 Epoch AI
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 60% #23 of 35 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 35.3% #8 of 12 Official leaderboard
AA-Briefcase 1,548 #4 of 6 Model card
Vending-Bench Arena $3,194 #22 of 32 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.2 53% #24 of 32 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA 63.3% #9 of 12 Model card
Build-A-Chip-Bench 0.20% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
Parametric CAD Bench 24.9% #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
Epoch Automation Reports 52.4% #5 of 6 Official leaderboard
Clipping Bench $343 #16 of 19 Official leaderboard
BlenderWorld 46.5 #11 of 13 Official leaderboard
Quant-Arena 38.3 #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
24/7 ClawBench 2.0 48.3% #1 of 1 Model card
DECK Bench 73.5% #1 of 1 Model card
Finance Bench (Moonshot) 62.6% #1 of 1 Model card
MIRA Bench 64.1% #1 of 1 Model card
Online Experience (Moonshot) 77.9% #1 of 1 Model card
Vals Index v1 74.7% #1 of 1 Model card

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Video-MME 90% #2 of 42 Model card
MMMU-Pro 81.6% #7 of 72 Model card
MMVU 82.1% #2 of 20 Model card
Math Kangaroo 2025 (MathArena) 91.3% #3 of 22 Official leaderboard
MATH-Vision (MathVision) 94.3% #6 of 42 Model card
BabyVision 85.7% #4 of 27 Official leaderboard
MDPBench 83.6 #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 1,916 #15 of 56 Official leaderboard
CharXiv 84.8% #18 of 67 Model card
ArtifactArena 1,164 #8 of 21 Official leaderboard
VibeVideoBench 3.44 #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
WorldVQA 51% #5 of 9 Model card
Code2Video Benchmark 1,481 #11 of 19 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 29.5% #21 of 35 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 23% #15 of 25 Model card
GDP.pdf 19% #24 of 39 Epoch AI
Furniture Assembly Benchmark 34.2% #22 of 35 Epoch AI
DataCenterBench Tier 1 15% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
OmniDocBench 91.1% #2 of 3 Model card
Humanity's Sixth Sense 25.5% #21 of 29 Official leaderboard
ScienceVision 0.36 #8 of 11 Official leaderboard
PerceptionBench (Moonshot) 58.5% #3 of 3 Model card
Agentic Vision Bench (Moonshot) 78.3% #1 of 1 Model card
KWV Bench 64.7% #1 of 1 Model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Dictatorship Eval 90.3% #3 of 20 Official leaderboard
CyberBench (Vals) 79% #4 of 26 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 75.2% #8 of 43 Official leaderboard
OncologyBench 24% #6 of 30 Official leaderboard
Agentic BAIM-LLM Evaluation (ABLE) 78.4% #4 of 16 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 60.2% #27 of 71 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 73.5% #16 of 42 Official leaderboard
KORA 52.5% #18 of 42 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 17.4 #15 of 28 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 26.6% #36 of 66 Official leaderboard
VariantBench 31.4% #16 of 27 Official leaderboard
PCT (Polarized Contrastive Pairs) 47.6% #28 of 46 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 35.3% #18 of 28 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Function 32.7% #18 of 27 Official leaderboard
scBench-Long 14.2% #18 of 27 Official leaderboard
CheatBench 70% #7 of 10 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Refusal 8.30% #16 of 22 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 31.3% #21 of 28 Official leaderboard
MetagenomicsBench 27.3% #20 of 26 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Surveillance 38.6% #22 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 39.7% #23 of 28 Official leaderboard
SpatialBench-Long 22.6% #23 of 27 Official leaderboard
EpiBench 15.7% #24 of 27 Official leaderboard
ExploitBench 32% #17 of 19 Model card
Last Secure Code Benchmark 16.4% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
Kimi exploit development suite 38.9% #1 of 1 Model card
UK AISI and CAISI simulated enterprise network range 17.0 #1 of 1 Model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SAGE (Vals) 52.8% #5 of 81 Official leaderboard
Vals Multimodal Index 73.4% #3 of 33 Official leaderboard
LMCA 52.7% #21 of 139 Epoch AI
Conceptual Reasoning Index 62.8 #28 of 149 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 40.5 #18 of 66 Official leaderboard
SuperCLUE 70.7 #5 of 18 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 60.6 #15 of 53 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 70.5 #50 of 150 Official leaderboard
SAGE v1.1 (Vals) 86.8% #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 57.1 #3 of 7 Model card
Hermes Index 39.2 #8 of 17 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 53.6 #37 of 65 Official leaderboard
LiveBench 64.6% #18 of 28 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. 27 of them aren't in the launch post.

Hallucination

AI R&D risk