Model comparison
Kimi K2.5 Instant vs Qwen3 235B-A22B
Kimi K2.5 Instant and Qwen3 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.6 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.5 Instant leads 29.7 to 15.7.
Side by side
| Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 43.6 | 43.5 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 49 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 235B-A22B leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.6 (#97), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1484 | 1445 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1404 | — |
| SciCode | — | 42.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 41% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2.5 Instant: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 52.1% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -11.34 |
Reasoning Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 29.7 (#90), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1433 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 69.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 11% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 9% |
| DTBench | — | 80.3% |
| LMCA | — | 29.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 143.85 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.7 |
Math Qwen3 235B-A22B leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.4 (#105), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1442 | 1432 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 71.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 68.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 8.5% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#123), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1440 | 1463 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 80.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 40.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 84.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 72.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#50), Qwen3 235B-A22B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1254 | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.0 (#94), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1406 | 1409 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1449 | 1481 |
| LMArena French | 1403 | 1445 |
| LMArena German | 1413 | 1433 |
| LMArena Korean | 1378 | 1391 |
| LMArena Russian | 1404 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1447 | 1430 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1399 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.3 (#65), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1430 | 1408 |
| IFEval | — | 83.5% |
Long Context Qwen3 235B-A22B leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.9 (#83), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1426 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 75% |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.6 (#95), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1420 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1381 | 1384 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1427 | 1432 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1366 |
| WildBench | — | 86.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2.5 Instant better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?
Kimi K2.5 Instant and Qwen3 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.6 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Kimi K2.5 Instant or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?
Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 42.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 Instant and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.