# Grok 4.20 vs Kimi K2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Grok 4.20 and Kimi K2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/grok-4-20-beta-vs-kimi-k2-5
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4.20 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

- Grok 4.20 leads overall 67.13 to 54.01.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 34.6 for Grok 4.20 and 65.7 for Kimi K2.5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is DeepSearchQA in Agentic, with scores of 62.8% and 77.1%.
- Kimi K2.5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Grok 4.20 also has the larger context window at 2M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | xAI | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 2M | 256K |
| Overall Score | 67.13 | 54.01 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 23 | 45 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $6.00 | $0.60 / $3.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 26.7 (Supported · #145/152)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 46.4 (Estimated · #77/152)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 47.1% | 50.8% | Kimi K2.5 |
| DeepSearchQA | 62.8% | 77.1% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Gert Labs | 38.36% | 45.88% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 44.2% | 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 |
| 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 |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.0% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 8.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 28.2 (Supported · #141/151)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #55/151)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% | 76.8% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.8% | 50.7% | Grok 4.20 |
| Vibe Code Bench | 4.06% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 72.2% | Coming soon | 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
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 34.6 (#43/48)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 65.7 (#24/48)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 75.2% | 78.5% | Kimi K2.5 |
| CharXiv | 60.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 54.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 57.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 65.8% | Coming soon | 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
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 34.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 54.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 53.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: 49.4 (Supported · #85/183)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 52 (Estimated · #69/183)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 88.5% | 87.6% | Grok 4.20 |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 20.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 50.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 86.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 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 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.8 (#41/123)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 56.0% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Grok 4.20 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.4 (#5/7)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.20 | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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

### Which is better overall, Grok 4.20 or Kimi K2.5?

Grok 4.20 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Grok 4.20 and Kimi K2.5?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 34.6 for Grok 4.20 and 65.7 for Kimi K2.5.

### How many benchmarks does Grok 4.20 cover on BenchLM?

Grok 4.20 currently has 23 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.

## Related Comparisons

- [Grok 4.20 vs Grok 4.20 Multi-agent](/compare/grok-4-20-beta-vs-grok-4-20-multi-agent-beta)
- [Kimi K2.5 vs Grok 4.20 Multi-agent](/compare/grok-4-20-multi-agent-beta-vs-kimi-k2-5)
- [Grok 4.20 vs Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)](/compare/grok-4-20-beta-vs-kimi-k2-5-reasoning)
- [Kimi K2.5 vs Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)](/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-kimi-k2-5-reasoning)

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