# GLM-5 vs Kimi K2.5

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-kimi-k2-5
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 35
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 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 leads overall 54.84 to 53.05.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 88.6 for GLM-5 and 85.8 for Kimi K2.5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Toolathlon in Agentic, with scores of 38% and 27.8%.
- Kimi K2.5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Kimi K2.5 also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 256K |
| Overall Score | 54.84 | 53.05 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 68 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $0.60 / $3.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 41.5 (Estimated · #63/128)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 40.7 (Estimated · #66/128)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 50.8% | GLM-5 |
| BrowseComp | 62% | 60.6% | GLM-5 |
| HLE w/ tools | 50.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | 52.3% | GLM-5 |
| QwenClawBench | 54.1% | 54.3% | Kimi K2.5 |
| τ³-bench results | 65.6% | 65.7% | Kimi K2.5 |
| DeepPlanning | 14.6% | 14.4% | GLM-5 |
| Toolathlon | 38% | 27.8% | GLM-5 |
| MCP Atlas | 31.1% | 29.5% | GLM-5 |
| MCP-Tasks | 60.8% | 59.1% | GLM-5 |
| WideResearch | 69.8% | 72.7% | Kimi K2.5 |
| CyberGym | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | 45.88% | GLM-5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 63.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 77.1% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.0% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 8.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38 (Estimated · #70/150)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.5 (Estimated · #68/150)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | 76.8% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | 70.8% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 50.7% | GLM-5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | 73% | GLM-5 |
| NL2Repo | 35.9% | 32% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | 58.5% | GLM-5 |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | 77.2% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 50.8% | GLM-5 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 70.9 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 72.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | 61% | Kimi K2.5 |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 70.4 (#32/54)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.5% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 81.0% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 88.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 83.2% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |
| We-Math | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 84.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 71.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | Coming soon | 58.5% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.7% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 94.1% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 77.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 50.4 (Estimated · #79/184)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 51.4 (Estimated · #75/184)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 87.6% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | 87.6% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SuperGPQA | 66.8% | 69.2% | Kimi K2.5 |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.7% | 87.1% | Kimi K2.5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 85.8% | 87.1% | Kimi K2.5 |
| HLE | 30.5% | 30.1% | GLM-5 |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 94% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: GLM-5
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/17)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 87.3 (#8/17)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | 82.3% | GLM-5 |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | 56.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 83.3% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 43.1% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 72.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.6 (#35/148)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.8 (#48/148)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | 93.9% | Kimi K2.5 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 83 (Unranked · 6 rankable rows)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 95.8% | Tie |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 93.3% | 96.3% | Kimi K2.5 |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 97.5% | 95.4% | GLM-5 |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 96.9% | 91.1% | GLM-5 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 86.4% | 87.1% | Kimi K2.5 |
| MMAnswerBench | 82.5% | 81.8% | GLM-5 |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 96.1% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

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

GLM-5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 88.6 for GLM-5 and 85.8 for Kimi K2.5.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5 currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Kimi K2.5 currently has 68 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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