Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Granite-4.0-1B
~40
0/8 categoriesKimi K2.5 (Reasoning)
76
Winner · 3/8 categoriesGranite-4.0-1B· Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)
Pick Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B 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 40. 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 multilingual, where it averages 89.5 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 27.5% to 96%.
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-1B 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.
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| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 50.8% |
| BrowseComp | — | 60.6% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 63.3% |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | 73% | 99% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.8% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 85% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 70% |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 57.4% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | — | 78.5% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 77% |
| Reasoning | ||
| BBH | 59.7% | 91% |
| MuSR | — | 86% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 61% |
| MRCRv2 | — | 81% |
| KnowledgeKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins | ||
| MMLU | 59.7% | 92% |
| GPQA | 29.7% | 87.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 32.9% | 87.1% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 88% |
| HLE | — | 27% |
| FrontierScience | — | 80% |
| SimpleQA | — | 54% |
| Instruction FollowingKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins | ||
| IFEval | 78.5% | 94% |
| MultilingualKimi K2.5 (Reasoning) wins | ||
| MGSM | 27.5% | 96% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 86% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | — | 94% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 96% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 96.1% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 90% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 92% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 95.4% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 93% |
| MATH-500 | — | 92% |
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 76 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 27.5% and 96%.
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.9 versus 31.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94 versus 78.5. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 89.5 versus 27.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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