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Benchmark suiteUpdated May 27, 2026

Kimi K2.5 Thinking.

A model-level benchmark profile for Kimi K2.5 Thinking, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

Moonshot AI lab page

Lab

Moonshot AI

Open weights

Coverage

78%

7 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#24

Vision Arena

Best suite

#21

Coding / 71

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Kimi K2.5 Thinking is strongest on coding.

78% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #21 in the coding view, with a 71 coding index. The strongest raw Arena signal is Vision Arena at rank #24 with 14,366 public votes.

Best current lane

Coding

#21 / 71 coding index

Strongest raw signal

Vision

#24, 1247 score

Commercial posture

$1.19

1.34s first token / 33 tok/s

Coverage gaps

Search ArenaDocument Arena

Profile completeness

7 of 9 signals matched

78%

Arena categories

3/5

Vision, Code, Text

Commercial match

Live

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)

SWE-bench

#13

bash-only

Raw identifier

kimi-k2.5-thinking

ReasoningOpen weights

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,449#41

1445-1453 CI

36,795 votes

May 27, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

1,431#29

1424-1437 CI

10,684 votes

May 25, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Vision Arena

Arena category

1,247#24

1240-1254 CI

14,366 votes

May 18, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

70.8%#13

bash-only

kimi-k2.5

Feb 17, 2026

SWE-bench Verified

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$1.19

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$0.580

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$3.00

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

1.34s

Median time to first token

Output speed

33 tok/s

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#2469

value index

blended / 1M tokens$1.19
time to first token1.34s
output speed33 tok/s

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#2171

coding index

Code Arena rank #291,431
SWE-bench rank #1370.8%
output speed33 tok/s

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#5483

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latency1.34s

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#4153

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #411,449
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision Arena rank #241,247

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#6242

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #411,449

Lab context

Nearby Moonshot AI profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

Kimi K2.6

kimi-k2.6

Open weights

Best rank

#8

Coverage

67%

Kimi K2.5 Instant

kimi-k2.5-instant

Open weights

Best rank

#30

Coverage

33%

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo

kimi-k2-thinking-turbo

Open weights

Best rank

#59

Coverage

22%

Kimi K2 0905 Preview

kimi-k2-0905-preview

Open weights

Best rank

#83

Coverage

44%

Kimi K2 0711 Preview

kimi-k2-0711-preview

Open weights

Best rank

#86

Coverage

11%