Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs o1

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 40.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

47.8

Rank #50 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.6

Rank #140 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 10 categories and o1 in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.5 leads 50.3 to 34.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 65.3% for Kimi K2.5 and 30.7% for o1.
  • Kimi K2.5 is cheaper at $0.45 / $2.25 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • Kimi K2.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Kimi K2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and o1 specifications
Kimi K2.5o1
ProviderMoonshot AIOpenAI
Noometry Index47.840.6
Released2026-01-272024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K200K
Max output262K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.45$15
Output $ / M tokens$2.25$60
Results tracked5152

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.7 (#48), o1: 45.7 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
WeirdML45.6%47.6%
LMArena Coding14741367
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
LMArena WebDev1436—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
SciCode49%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench821.65—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 34.0 (#44), o1: 24.3 (#111)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
Cybench—10%
OSWorld63.3%—
METR Time Horizons—51.1%
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#74), o1: 27.5 (#103)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
SimpleBench46.8%41.7%
ARC-AGI-165.3%30.7%
Chess Puzzles12%15%
EnigmaEval3.4%5.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14541372
Epoch Capabilities Index148.05141.92
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
CritPt3.1%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
LiveBench—75.7%

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 50.3 (#46), o1: 34.9 (#150)

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#52), o1: 41.5 (#101)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
GPQA Diamond87.6%76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%8%
SimpleQA Verified34.3%41.1%
LMArena Expert14661362
Confabulations—11.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—

Multimodal Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 40.4 (#37), o1: 33.6 (#87)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
LMArena Vision12691168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
LMArena Document1430—
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 54.1 (#50), o1: 48.8 (#137)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
LMArena Non-English14331359
LMArena Chinese14951394
LMArena French14541343
LMArena German14411337
LMArena Japanese14221346
LMArena Korean14121396
LMArena Russian14361356
LMArena Spanish14501345

Instruction Following Too close to call

Kimi K2.5: 75.5 (#60), o1: 75.0 (#82)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
LMArena Instruction Following14311368
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query14451378
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 65.3 (#51), o1: 55.8 (#139)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5o1
LMArena Text14451366
LMArena Creative Writing14231347
LMArena Multi-Turn14441368
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than o1?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 40.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 or o1?

Kimi K2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $2.25 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is Kimi K2.5 or o1 better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 45.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K2.5 does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and o1 share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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