Model comparison

Kimi K2.7 Code vs o4-mini

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI

43.3

Rank #94 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher in 4 categories and o4-mini in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.7 Code leads 39.0 to 24.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 57.9% for Kimi K2.7 Code and 38.7% for o4-mini.
  • Kimi K2.7 Code is cheaper at $0.95 / $4 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o4-mini.
  • Kimi K2.7 Code accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Kimi K2.7 Code has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Kimi K2.7 Code and o4-mini specifications
Kimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
ProviderMoonshot AIOpenAI
Noometry Index43.341.6
Released2026-06-122025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K200K
Max output262K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.95$1.10
Output $ / M tokens$4$4.40
Results tracked1960

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 42.9 (#95), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
WeirdML54.1%52.6%
ALE-Bench886.23826.17
DeepSWE30.5%—
FrontierCode30.1%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
LMArena WebDev1473—
SciCode47.5%—
GSO—3.6%
LMArena Coding—1368
CadEval—62%
AlgoTune—1.72

Agentic & Tool Use o4-mini leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 24.0 (#122), o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
APEX-Agents37.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
GBAEval0.9%—
METR Time Horizons—63.9%
Vending-Bench 25,083—

Reasoning Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 39.0 (#61), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
SimpleBench57.9%38.7%
CritPt10%0.6%
Chess Puzzles21%26%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.97145.64
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1351
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LMCA—26.5%
Surface Evolver Bench48.8%—
ForecastBench—61.8

Math Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 52.9 (#48), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)54%36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%4.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%81.7%
Omni-MATH—72%
LMArena Math—1389
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—24.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 53.5 (#57), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
GPQA Diamond87.9%79.6%
SimpleQA Verified36.5%19.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%
LMArena Expert—1343

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
LMArena Non-English—1337
LMArena Chinese—1354
LMArena French—1364
LMArena German—1336
LMArena Japanese—1308
LMArena Korean—1312
LMArena Russian—1334
LMArena Spanish—1347

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
IFEval—92.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1321

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1315

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 Codeo4-mini
LMArena Text—1353
LMArena Creative Writing—1294
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1350

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.7 Code better than o4-mini?

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 41.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.7 Code or o4-mini?

Kimi K2.7 Code is cheaper. It lists at $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; o4-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

Is Kimi K2.7 Code or o4-mini better for coding?

Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 40.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K2.7 Code does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.7 Code and o4-mini share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.7 Code has 19 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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