Kimi K2.5 vs MiniMax M2.7

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

MiniMax M2.7 finishes one point ahead overall, 57 to 56. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Kimi K2.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $2.80 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens for MiniMax M2.7. That is roughly 2.3x on output cost alone. MiniMax M2.7 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Kimi K2.5.

Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Kimi K2.5 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Agentic

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Terminal-Bench 2.0
57%
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Toolathlon
46.3%
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MLE-Bench Lite
66.6%
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MM-ClawBench
62.7%

Coding

Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5

82.9

MiniMax M2.7

56.2

76.8%
SWE-bench Verified
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85%
LiveCodeBench
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SWE-bench Pro
56.2%
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SWE Multilingual
76.5%
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Multi-SWE Bench
52.7%
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VIBE-Pro
55.6%
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NL2Repo
39.8%

Multimodal & Grounded

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GDPval-AA
1495

Reasoning

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Knowledge

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87.6%
GPQA
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87.1%
MMLU-Pro
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74%
SimpleQA
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Artificial Analysis
50

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Kimi K2.5 or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall, 57 to 56.

Which is better for coding, Kimi K2.5 or MiniMax M2.7?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 82.9 versus 56.2. MiniMax M2.7 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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