# Kimi K2.5 vs MiniCPM5-1B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and MiniCPM5-1B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-minicpm5-1b
- Last updated: October 7, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 8
- 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 52.08 to 5.12. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 84.4 for Kimi K2.5 and 9.7 for MiniCPM5-1B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA-D in Knowledge, with scores of 87.6% and 26.3%.
- Kimi K2.5 also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | OpenBMB |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 131K |
| Overall Score | 52.08 | 5.12 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 39 (Estimated · #65/122)
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 45.88% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 25.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 40 (Estimated · #65/146)
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | 33.5% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 73% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 22.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 55.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BBH | Coming soon | 71.9% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 66.8 (#24/49)
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B | 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 |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 49.8 (Estimated · #67/174)
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 7.8 (Estimated · #174/174)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | 26.3% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | 23.1% | Kimi K2.5 |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | 48.9% | Kimi K2.5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 70.1% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 87.3 (#8/16)
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 84.4 (#41/125)
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 9.7 (#123/125)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | 80.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 46.7% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.1 (#4/7)
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 5.4 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniCPM5-1B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 96.1% | 40.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 40.4% | 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% | 25.8% | 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 |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or MiniCPM5-1B?

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 MiniCPM5-1B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 84.4 for Kimi K2.5 and 9.7 for MiniCPM5-1B.

### 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 MiniCPM5-1B cover on BenchLM?

MiniCPM5-1B currently has 14 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [MiniCPM5-1B vs Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)](/compare/kimi-k2-5-reasoning-vs-minicpm5-1b)
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