# Atria Dawn Preview vs Kimi K2.6

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Atria Dawn Preview and Kimi K2.6 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/atria-dawn-preview-vs-kimi-2-6
- Last updated: September 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K2.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Atria Dawn Preview only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Kimi K2.6 leads overall 65.46 to 63.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 57.9 for Atria Dawn Preview and 46.6 for Kimi K2.6.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is BrowseComp in Agentic, with scores of 92.5% and 83.2%.
- Atria Dawn Preview is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Atria Dawn Preview | Kimi K2.6 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 256K |
| Overall Score | null | 65.46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 37 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.95 / $4.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: 57.9 (Estimated · #31/153)
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 46.6 (Supported · #77/153)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AutomationBench | 53.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 77.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 96.0% | 92.5% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| BrowseComp | 92.5% | 83.2% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| skillsBench | 66.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 81.9% | 80.8% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| τ³-bench results | 41.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 50.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66.7% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 73.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 50% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 62.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 56.82% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 4.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: 51.6 (Estimated · #51/152)
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 50.8 (Supported · #53/152)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59.6% | 58.6% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 76.7% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 52.2% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66.7% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 37.89% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | Coming soon | 47.6% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 76.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 64 (#26/48)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 61.4 (Supported · #32/183)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 34.7% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 71.3 (#1/7)

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 96.4% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 38.966% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 14.580% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Atria Dawn Preview or Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Atria Dawn Preview and Kimi K2.6?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 57.9 for Atria Dawn Preview and 46.6 for Kimi K2.6.

### How many benchmarks does Atria Dawn Preview cover on BenchLM?

Atria Dawn Preview currently has 13 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K2.6 cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K2.6 currently has 37 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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