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Kimi K2.5vs
MiniMax M2
Kimi K2.5 leads 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Kimi K2.5 has the larger context window (256K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
6 – 0
Kimi K2.5 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Kimi K2.5
256K tokens
Providers
2 providers
Moonshot AI · MiniMax
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
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 26 · 14 core
MiniMax M2
MiniMax · released 2025-10-27
text
Quality
Benchmark matrix
6 shared · 20 only Kimi K2.5 · 11 only MiniMax M2| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 6 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% ↗ | 69.4% ↗ | +7.4 pt | Kimi K2.5 |
| LMArena Elo | 1450.1 ↗ | 1343.4 ↗ | +106.7 | Kimi K2.5 |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% ↗ | 44% ↗ | +16.6 pt | Kimi K2.5 |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1435.8 ↗ | 1296.6 ↗ | +139.2 | Kimi K2.5 |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 46.8% ↗ | 25% ↗ | +21.8 pt | Kimi K2.5 |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 1198.46 ↗ | 160.6 ↗ | +1037.9 | Kimi K2.5 |
| Only Kimi K2.5 reports · 20 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 96.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA-Diamond | 87.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HLE-Full | 30.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HLE-Full (w/ tools) | 50.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HMMT 2025 (Feb) | 95.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| IMO-AnswerBench | 81.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench (v6) | 85% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Vision (LMArena) | 1252.2 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified (XLANG) | 63.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 49.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Multilingual | 73% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 50.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 73.8% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal Bench 2.0 | 50.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST) | 33% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| VideoMMMU | 86.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | 45.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only MiniMax M2 reports · 11 | ||||
| AgentCompany | not reported | 36% ↗ | — | — |
| ArtifactsBench | not reported | 66.8% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp-zh | not reported | 48.5% ↗ | — | — |
| FinSearchComp-global | not reported | 65.5% ↗ | — | — |
| GAIA (text only) | not reported | 75.7% ↗ | — | — |
| HLE (w/ tools) | not reported | 31.8% ↗ | — | — |
| Multi-SWE-Bench | not reported | 36.2% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | not reported | 56.5% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench | not reported | 46.3% ↗ | — | — |
| xbench-DeepSearch | not reported | 72% ↗ | — | — |
| τ²-Bench | not reported | 77.2% ↗ | — | — |
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 K2.5 minus MiniMax M2 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens | 205K tokens | Kimi K2.5 |
| Max output | — | 128K tokens | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | $0.3 ↗ | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | $1.2 ↗ | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.03 ↗ | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | $1.5 | — |
| Modalities | text · vision · video | text | Kimi K2.5 |
| Released | 2026-01-27 | 2025-10-27 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 26 | 17 | — |
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