Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
1-bit Bonsai 8B
~50
0/8 categoriesKimi K2
53
Winner · 3/8 categories1-bit Bonsai 8B· Kimi K2
Pick Kimi K2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Kimi K2 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 53 versus 50. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Kimi K2's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 64 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 75.1%.
Kimi K2 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.
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| Benchmark | 1-bit Bonsai 8B | Kimi K2 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 47.1% |
| BrowseComp | — | 60.2% |
| tau2-bench | — | 66.1% |
| Coding | ||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 65.8% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 53.7% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Reasoning | ||
| MuSR | 50% | — |
| hle | — | 44.9% |
| KnowledgeKimi K2 wins | ||
| GPQA | 30% | 75.1% |
| MMLU | — | 89.5% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 57.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.1% |
| SimpleQA | — | 31% |
| Instruction FollowingKimi K2 wins | ||
| IFEval | 79.8% | 89.8% |
| Multilingual | ||
| sweMultilingual | — | 61.1% |
| MathematicsKimi K2 wins | ||
| MATH-500 | 66% | 97.4% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 69.6% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 49.5% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 38.8% |
Kimi K2 is ahead overall, 53 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 75.1%.
Kimi K2 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 64 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.9 versus 66. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89.8 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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