Model comparison

Kimi K3 vs Phi-1.5

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #15 Confirmed

Phi-1.5 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Kimi K3 and Phi-1.5 specifications
Kimi K3Phi-1.5
ProviderMoonshot AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index59.5—
Released2026-07-162023-09-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output1.05M—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked537

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Kimi K3: 61.0 (#10), Phi-1.5: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
DeepSWE68.5%—
FrontierCode44.2%—
LMArena WebDev1654—
FrontierSWE25.9%—
SciCode59.5%—
WeirdML82.6%—
LMArena Coding1508—
ALE-Bench1,524—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K3: 41.8 (#20), Phi-1.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
APEX-Agents50.6%—
τ²-bench Banking37.1%—
PostTrainBench32%—
GBAEval48.3%—
GDP.pdf19%—
Vending-Bench 25,165—

Reasoning Not comparable

Kimi K3: 63.0 (#17), Phi-1.5: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
Epoch Capabilities Index157.4591.53
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
SimpleBench60.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.6%—
ARC-AGI-194.5%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles39%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1496—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA52.7%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
ForecastBench61.1—
HellaSwag—47.6%
WinoGrande—73.4%

Math Not comparable

Kimi K3: 74.2 (#16), Phi-1.5: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K3: 63.2 (#21), Phi-1.5: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
GPQA Diamond93.1%—
SimpleQA Verified50.6%—
LMArena Expert1521—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—44.4%
BoolQ—75.8%
MMLU—37.6%
OpenBookQA—37.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K3: 37.8 (#70), Phi-1.5: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
Blueprint-Bench 229.5%—
Furniture Assembly34.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K3: 56.3 (#21), Phi-1.5: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
LMArena Non-English1466—
LMArena Chinese1529—
LMArena French1491—
LMArena German1488—
LMArena Japanese1487—
LMArena Korean1458—
LMArena Russian1482—
LMArena Spanish1472—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K3: 77.7 (#14), Phi-1.5: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
LMArena Instruction Following1483—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K3: 45.8 (#29), Phi-1.5: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
LMArena Longer Query1494—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K3: 76.6 (#4), Phi-1.5: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Phi-1.5
LMArena Text1476—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2082—
EQ-Bench 41339—
LMArena Multi-Turn1488—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K3 better than Phi-1.5?

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K3 and Phi-1.5 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Kimi K3 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Phi-1.5 has 7.

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