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Kimi K2-0905vsKimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 256K-token context window.

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0 – 3
Kimi K2.5 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 256K tokens
Providers
Moonshot AI
same provider
Kimi K2-0905
Moonshot AI · released 2025-09-05
text
Context
256K
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
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Cached /1M
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Scores
6 · 3 core
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI · released 2026-01-27
textvisionvideo
Context
256K
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
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Cached /1M
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Scores
26 · 14 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkKimi K2-0905Kimi K2.5ΔEdge
Reported by both · 3
SWE-bench Verified69.2% ↗76.8% ↗-7.6 ptKimi K2.5
SWE-Bench Multilingual55.9% ↗73% ↗-17.1 ptKimi K2.5
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)36.7% ↗45.6% ↗-8.9 ptKimi K2.5
Only Kimi K2-0905 reports · 3
Multi-SWE-Bench33.5% ↗not reported——
SWE-Dev66.6% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench (Terminus-2)44.5% ↗not reported——
Only Kimi K2.5 reports · 23
MMLU-Pronot reported87.1% ↗——
AIME 2025not reported96.1% ↗——
LMArena Elonot reported1450.1 ↗——
BrowseCompnot reported60.6% ↗——
GPQA-Diamondnot reported87.6% ↗——
HLE-Fullnot reported30.1% ↗——
HLE-Full (w/ tools)not reported50.2% ↗——
HMMT 2025 (Feb)not reported95.4% ↗——
IMO-AnswerBenchnot reported81.8% ↗——
LiveCodeBench (v6)not reported85% ↗——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1252.2 ↗——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)not reported1435.8 ↗——
MMMU-Pronot reported78.5% ↗——
OSWorld-Verified (XLANG)not reported63.3% ↗——
SAGE (Vals AI)not reported49.9% ↗——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)not reported46.8% ↗——
SimpleQA Verifiednot reported34.3% ↗epoch run——
SWE-Bench Pronot reported50.7% ↗——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)not reported73.8% ↗epoch run——
Terminal Bench 2.0not reported50.8% ↗——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)not reported33% ↗——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)not reported1198.46 ↗——
VideoMMMUnot reported86.6% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Kimi K2-0905 minus Kimi K2.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecKimi K2-0905Kimi K2.5Edge
Context window256K tokens256K tokensTie
Max output———
Input price / 1M———
Output price / 1M———
Cached input / 1M———
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
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Modalitiestexttext · vision · videoKimi K2.5
Released2025-09-052026-01-27—
Cited benchmark scores626—
Reliability

Moonshot AI status

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