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Kimi K2.5 vs MiMo-V2.5

Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.

Kimi K2.5

64

VS

MiMo-V2.5

71

1 categoriesvs2 categories

Verified leaderboard positions: Kimi K2.5 #11 · MiMo-V2.5 unranked

Pick MiMo-V2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Kimi K2.5 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Category Radar

Head-to-Head by Category

Category Breakdown

Agentic

MiMo-V2.5
54.6vs65.8

+11.2 difference

Coding

Kimi K2.5
64.2vs56.1

+8.1 difference

Multimodal

MiMo-V2.5
78.5vs78.9

+0.4 difference

Operational Comparison

Kimi K2.5

MiMo-V2.5

Price (per 1M tokens)

$0.6 / $3

$null / $null

Speed

45 t/s

N/A

Latency (TTFT)

2.38s

N/A

Context Window

256K

1M

Quick Verdict

Pick MiMo-V2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Kimi K2.5 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

MiMo-V2.5 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 71 to 64. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

MiMo-V2.5's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 65.8 against 54.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 50.8% to 65.8%. Kimi K2.5 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

MiMo-V2.5 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Kimi K2.5 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. MiMo-V2.5 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Kimi K2.5.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Kimi K2.5 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 71 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 50.8% and 65.8%.

Which is better for coding, Kimi K2.5 or MiMo-V2.5?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.2 versus 56.1. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Kimi K2.5 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.8 versus 54.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Kimi K2.5 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.9 versus 78.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Self-host vs API cost

Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.

Kimi K2.5
API / mo$2,700
Self-host / mo$5,221
Break-even132M/day
MiMo-V2.5
API / mo$0
Self-host / moN/A
Break-even
Proprietary model — self-hosting not applicable.
Model the full break-even

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Last updated: May 13, 2026

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