# Kimi K2.5 vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-120b-a12b
- Last updated: October 15, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 11
- 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 53.04 to 49.51. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 85.8 for Kimi K2.5 and 66.6 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is τ³-bench results in Agentic, with scores of 65.7% and 18.9%.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | NVIDIA |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 53.04 | 49.51 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 68 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 40.9 (Estimated · #65/127)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 44.2 (Estimated · #61/127)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | 78% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| OSWorld-Verified | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 52.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 65.7% | 18.9% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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 |
| BFCL v4 | 68.3% | 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 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 66.7% | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench Airline | Coming soon | 76.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.4 (Estimated · #68/150)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | 71.1% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | 88.2% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | 51.8% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| SWE Multilingual | 73% | 67.7% | 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 72.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 73 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 10.9% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 70.4 (#32/54)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 62 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | 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% | 78.2% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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% | 62.8% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| 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% | 80.8% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 29.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 51.4 (Estimated · #75/184)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 51.8 (Estimated · #73/184)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | 89.5% | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B |
| 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% | 29.2% | Kimi K2.5 |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 31.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 87.3 (#8/17)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | 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 (#46/146)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: 66.6 (#72/146)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 70.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B | 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 |
| Apex Shortlist | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B?

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 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 85.8 for Kimi K2.5 and 66.6 for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B.

### 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 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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