# Kanana-2 3B Instruct vs Kimi K2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kanana-2 3B Instruct and Kimi K2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kanana-2-3b-instruct-vs-kimi-k2-5
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Kanana-2 3B Instruct and Kimi K2.5 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct has the lower published output-token price.
- Kimi K2.5 has the larger published context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Kimi K2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Kakao | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 32K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 54.01 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 3 | 45 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.60 / $3.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 46.4 (Estimated · #77/152)

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #55/151)

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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-bench Pro | Coming soon | 50.7% | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 65.7 (#24/48)

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 54.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 52 (Estimated · #69/183)

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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 |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.8 (#41/123)

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 33.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 81.0% | 93.9% | Kimi K2.5 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 56.0% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kanana-2 3B Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.4 (#5/7)

| Benchmark | Kanana-2 3B Instruct | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 61.2% | 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 Kanana-2 3B Instruct and Kimi K2.5?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, 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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