# Kimi K2.5 vs MiniMax M2.7

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and MiniMax M2.7 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-minimax-m2-7
- Last updated: September 15, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 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

- MiniMax M2.7 leads overall 55.14 to 54.14.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 54.1 for Kimi K2.5 and 74.8 for MiniMax M2.7.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Toolathlon in Agentic, with scores of 27.8% and 46.3%.
- MiniMax M2.7 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Kimi K2.5 also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | MiniMax |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 200K |
| Overall Score | 54.14 | 55.14 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 23 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | $0.30 / $1.20 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 46.5 (Estimated · #78/153)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 41.1 (Estimated · #110/153)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | 57% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 52.3% | 48.7% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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% | 46.3% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| 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% | 40.40% | Kimi K2.5 |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 66.6% | Coming soon |
| MM-ClawBench | Coming soon | 62.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #56/152)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 48.6 (Estimated · #68/152)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | 75.4% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | 56.2% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| SWE Multilingual | 73% | 76.5% | MiniMax M2.7 |
| SWE-Rebench | 58.5% | 51.9% | Kimi K2.5 |
| React Native Evals | 77.2% | 71.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SciCode | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Multi-SWE Bench | Coming soon | 52.7% | Coming soon |
| VIBE-Pro | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 27.04% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 73.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 65.7 (#24/48)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 | 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: 54.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 52.1 (Estimated · #69/183)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 48.7 (Supported · #90/183)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | 87.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 87.1% | 80.8% | Kimi K2.5 |
| HLE | 30.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.8 (#41/123)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: 93 (#10/123)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 | 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)
- MiniMax M2.7 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | MiniMax M2.7 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 96.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 96.3% | 80.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 27.900% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.200% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K2.5 and MiniMax M2.7?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 54.1 for Kimi K2.5 and 74.8 for MiniMax M2.7.

### 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 MiniMax M2.7 cover on BenchLM?

MiniMax M2.7 currently has 23 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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