Granite-4.0-350M vs Kimi K2.5

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Granite-4.0-350M· Kimi K2.5

Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Kimi K2.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Kimi K2.5's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 79.8 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 14.4% to 87.1%.

Kimi K2.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $2.80 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Granite-4.0-350M. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Kimi K2.5 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*$0.50 / $2.80
SpeedN/A45 t/s
TTFTN/A2.38s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGranite-4.0-350MKimi K2.5
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.050.8%
BrowseComp60.6%
OSWorld-Verified63.3%
Coding
HumanEval38%99%
SWE-bench Verified76.8%
LiveCodeBench85%
SWE-bench Pro40%
SWE-Rebench58.5%
React Native Evals74.9%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro78.5%
OfficeQA Pro69%
Reasoning
BBH33.3%81%
MuSR72%
LongBench v267%
MRCRv270%
KnowledgeKimi K2.5 wins
MMLU36.2%77%
GPQA26.1%87.6%
MMLU-Pro14.4%87.1%
SuperGPQA74%
HLE11%
FrontierScience67%
SimpleQA74%
Instruction FollowingKimi K2.5 wins
IFEval61.6%94%
MultilingualKimi K2.5 wins
MGSM16.2%83%
MMLU-ProX78%
Mathematics
AIME 202377%
AIME 202479%
AIME 202578%
HMMT Feb 202373%
HMMT Feb 202475%
HMMT Feb 202574%
BRUMO 202576%
MATH-50082%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is ahead overall, 71 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 14.4% and 87.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 18.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-350M or Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94 versus 61.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.8 versus 16.2. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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