# Claude Opus 5.5 vs Kimi K2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 5.5 and Kimi K2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-kimi-k2-5
- Last updated: September 23, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.6

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude Opus 5.5 and Kimi K2.5 share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Kimi K2.5 has the lower published output-token price.
- Claude Opus 5.5 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 88.45 | 53.79 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 47 | 45 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $4.00 / $20.00 | $0.60 / $3.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Opus 5.5 public-lane score: 88.8 (Supported · #1/105)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 35.5 (Estimated · #54/105)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 66.40% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | 58.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 40.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 67.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | 91.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | 82.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | 26.9 turns | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 52.3% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 54.3% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 65.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 77.1% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 14.4% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 27.8% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 29.5% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 72.7% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 45.88% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.0% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 8.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Opus 5.5 public-lane score: 87.1 (Supported · #1/135)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 40.9 (Estimated · #58/135)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench40 | 57.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 89.9% | 50.7% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 93.9% | 73% | Claude Opus 5.5 |
| SWE Multimodal | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 63.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 62.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 91.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 76.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 70.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 58.5% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 77.2% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Opus 5.5 public-lane score: 78.5 (#4/18)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 54.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Opus 5.5 public-lane score: 88.8 (#3/50)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 65.8 (#25/50)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (tools) | 89.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Chartography (no tools) | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | 0.730 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.962 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Biomedical image analysis | 71.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | 78.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 67.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Opus 5.5 public-lane score: 90 (Supported · #1/160)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 46.4 (Estimated · #68/160)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE w/o tools | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (raw) | 68.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 89.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 50.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | 72.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SingleCellBench | 61.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Morphology-to-molecule matching | 34.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Medicinal chemistry | 63.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design | 60.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design library ranking | 56.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| De novo protein-binder design | 82.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | 73.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | 69.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 87.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 87.6% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 69.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 30.1% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Opus 5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MILU | 93.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 56.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Opus 5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 84.4 (#41/124)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Opus 5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.1 (#4/7)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (no tools) | 91.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (tools) | 96.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 96.1% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 96.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 95.4% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 91.1% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 27.900% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 4.200% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude Opus 5.5 and Kimi K2.5?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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