# GLM-5.2 vs Kimi K2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-2-vs-kimi-k2-5
- Last updated: September 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 12
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Kimi K2.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- GLM-5.2 leads overall 68.19 to 54.07.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 74.8 for GLM-5.2 and 54.1 for Kimi K2.5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 76.8% and 29.5%.
- Kimi K2.5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GLM-5.2 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Overall Score | 68.19 | 54.07 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 25 | 45 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.40 / $4.40 | $0.60 / $3.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 58.5 (Supported · #29/153)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 46.4 (Estimated · #78/153)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 4.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 81% | 50.8% | GLM-5.2 |
| MCP Atlas | 76.8% | 29.5% | GLM-5.2 |
| Toolathlon | 48.2% | 27.8% | GLM-5.2 |
| ResearchClawBench | 20.7% | 14.0% | GLM-5.2 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 67.8% | Coming soon | 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 |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 72.7% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 45.88% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 8.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 61 (Supported · #19/152)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #56/152)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 62.1% | 50.7% | GLM-5.2 |
| NL2Repo | 48.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 81.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 63.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 55.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | 58.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 69.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.8% | 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 Multilingual | Coming soon | 73% | 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 |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 65.7 (#24/48)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 54.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | 20.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 60.7 (Supported · #35/183)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 52.1 (Estimated · #69/183)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 91.2% | 87.6% | GLM-5.2 |
| GPQA-D | 91.2% | 87.6% | GLM-5.2 |
| HLE | 54.7% | 30.1% | GLM-5.2 |
| HLE w/o tools | 40.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 86.7% | Coming soon | 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 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 89.8 (#22/123)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.8 (#41/123)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 56.0% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5.2 public-lane score: 80.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.4 (#5/7)

| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 99.2% | 95.8% | GLM-5.2 |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 94.4% | 91.1% | GLM-5.2 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 92.5% | 87.1% | GLM-5.2 |
| MMAnswerBench | 91.0% | 81.8% | GLM-5.2 |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 96.1% | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 96.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 95.4% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 27.900% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 4.200% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5.2 or Kimi K2.5?

GLM-5.2 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.5?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 74.8 for GLM-5.2 and 54.1 for Kimi K2.5.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5.2 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5.2 currently has 25 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K2.5 cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K2.5 currently has 45 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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