# Kimi K2.5 vs LFM3-1.7B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and LFM3-1.7B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-lfm3-1-7b
- Last updated: October 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 12
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Kimi K2.5 leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Kimi K2.5 has the higher overall point estimate 53.28 to 22.99. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 41.4 for Kimi K2.5 and 14.4 for LFM3-1.7B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE Multilingual in Coding, with scores of 73% and 23%.
- LFM3-1.7B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | LiquidAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 256K |
| Overall Score | 53.28 | 22.99 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 68 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 41.4 (Estimated · #69/134)
- LFM3-1.7B public-lane score: 14.4 (Estimated · #123/134)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 52.3% | 68.6% | LFM3-1.7B |
| QwenClawBench | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 65.7% | 68.0% | LFM3-1.7B |
| DeepSearchQA | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 14.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 27.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 29.5% | 32.6% | LFM3-1.7B |
| MCP-Tasks | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 68.3% | 71.4% | LFM3-1.7B |
| Gert Labs | 45.88% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 41.3% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 38.4% | Coming soon |
| ToolSandbox | Coming soon | 80.36% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 13.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 12.9% | Coming soon |
| LiveClaw | Coming soon | 45.60% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.9 (Estimated · #71/155)
- LFM3-1.7B public-lane score: 13 (Estimated · #142/155)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | 43.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | 73.5% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 73% | 23% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-Rebench | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 32% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | 28.5% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 12.9% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 31.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 71.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- LFM3-1.7B public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RULER (128K) | Coming soon | 65.56% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 70.6 (#36/58)
- LFM3-1.7B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 81.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 88.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 83.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| We-Math | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 71.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CountBench | 94.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 87.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 77.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 51.3 (Estimated · #79/189)
- LFM3-1.7B public-lane score: 25.5 (Estimated · #175/189)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | 63.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | 63.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 94.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 94% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.1% | 7.2% | Kimi K2.5 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 87.3 (#8/17)
- LFM3-1.7B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | 43.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.8 (#51/156)
- LFM3-1.7B public-lane score: 71.7 (#76/156)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | 96.7% | LFM3-1.7B |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| Multi-IF | Coming soon | 89.10% | Coming soon |
| IFStruct | Coming soon | 93.72% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- LFM3-1.7B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | LFM3-1.7B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 96.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 96.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 95.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 91.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 81.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or LFM3-1.7B?

Kimi K2.5 has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K2.5 and LFM3-1.7B?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 41.4 for Kimi K2.5 and 14.4 for LFM3-1.7B.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does LFM3-1.7B cover on BenchLM?

LFM3-1.7B currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [LFM3-1.7B vs Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)](/compare/kimi-k2-5-reasoning-vs-lfm3-1-7b)
- [Kimi K2.5 vs LFM3-1.7B-Base](/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-lfm3-1-7b-base)
- [LFM3-1.7B vs LFM3-1.7B-Base](/compare/lfm3-1-7b-vs-lfm3-1-7b-base)

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