Model comparison
Kimi K2.5 vs StarCoder 2 3B
Kimi K2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#57); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Kimi K2.5 leads 48.8 to 33.5.
Side by side
| Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 48.1 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2026-01-27 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.45 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 51 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2.5 leads
Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.8% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 70.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1437 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 67.3% | — |
| SciCode | 49% | — |
| WeirdML | 45.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1474 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 821.65 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 43.2% | — |
| OSWorld | 63.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,198 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.03 | 88.76 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 11.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 78.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 69.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 65.3% | — |
| CritPt | 3.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.4% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 69.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1453 | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 62.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 92.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1470 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 27.9% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 24.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1466 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1430 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1433 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | — |
| LMArena French | 1454 | — |
| LMArena German | 1441 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1421 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1410 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1435 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1450 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1431 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 86.1% | — |
| CL-bench | 19.3% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 13.2% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1445 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1445 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1423 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1579 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2.5 better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Kimi K2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#57); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Kimi K2.5 or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and StarCoder 2 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.