1-bit Bonsai 8B vs Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 8B· Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)

Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 76 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 67.9 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 87.6%.

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while 1-bit Bonsai 8B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.

Operational tradeoffs

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SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context64K128K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 8BKimi K2.5 (Reasoning)
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.050.8%
BrowseComp60.6%
OSWorld-Verified63.3%
Coding
HumanEval99%
SWE-bench Verified76.8%
LiveCodeBench85%
SWE-bench Pro70%
SWE-Rebench57.4%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro78.5%
OfficeQA Pro77%
ReasoningKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins
MuSR50%86%
BBH91%
LongBench v261%
MRCRv281%
KnowledgeKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins
GPQA30%87.6%
MMLU92%
SuperGPQA88%
MMLU-Pro87.1%
HLE27%
FrontierScience80%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction FollowingKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins
IFEval79.8%94%
Multilingual
MGSM96%
MMLU-ProX86%
MathematicsKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins
MATH-50066%92%
AIME 202394%
AIME 202496%
AIME 202596.1%
HMMT Feb 202390%
HMMT Feb 202492%
HMMT Feb 202595.4%
BRUMO 202593%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)?

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 76 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 87.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)?

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.9 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)?

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 94 versus 66. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)?

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 74.3 versus 50. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)?

Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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