# Kimi K2.5 vs Ling 3.0 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and Ling 3.0 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-ling-3-0-flash
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 11
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ling 3.0 Flash only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Kimi K2.5 leads overall 55.62 to 52.2.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 53.5 for Kimi K2.5 and 69.2 for Ling 3.0 Flash.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 29.5% and 65.5%.
- Ling 3.0 Flash is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Ling 3.0 Flash also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | InclusionAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 55.62 | 52.2 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 22 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 46 (Estimated · #90/151)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 40 (Supported · #121/151)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | 72.2% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| Claw-Eval | 52.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 65.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | 65.5% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| MCP-Tasks | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 72.7% | 73.6% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| Gert Labs | 45.88% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 44.8% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| DRACO | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 50.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 51.5 (Estimated · #64/183)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 42.8 (Estimated · #126/183)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | 56.6% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| SWE Multilingual | 73% | 72.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-Rebench | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | 41.2% | Kimi K2.5 |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 65.7 (#24/48)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 78.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 53.5 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 69.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 53.1 (Estimated · #70/181)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 45.9 (Supported · #112/181)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | 85.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | 85.0% | 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 |
| HLE | 30.1% | 22.7% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.6 (#40/120)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.6 (#58/120)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 74.5% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.4 (#5/7)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 96.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 93.2% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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% | 87.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| MMAnswerBench | 81.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 27.900% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.200% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or Ling 3.0 Flash?

Kimi K2.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K2.5 and Ling 3.0 Flash?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 53.5 for Kimi K2.5 and 69.2 for Ling 3.0 Flash.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Ling 3.0 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Ling 3.0 Flash currently has 22 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Kimi K2.5 vs Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)](/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-kimi-k2-5-reasoning)
- [Ling 3.0 Flash vs Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)](/compare/kimi-k2-5-reasoning-vs-ling-3-0-flash)
- [Kimi K2.5 vs Ling 3.0 Flash FP8](/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-ling-3-0-flash-fp8)
- [Ling 3.0 Flash vs Ling 3.0 Flash FP8](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-ling-3-0-flash-fp8)

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