# Kimi K2.5 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and Nemotron 3 Ultra across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-nemotron-3-ultra
- Last updated: October 15, 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 53.02 to 47.12. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in coding, where the averages are 38.4 for Kimi K2.5 and 21.9 for Nemotron 3 Ultra.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is BrowseComp in Agentic, with scores of 60.6% and 44.4%.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | NVIDIA |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 53.02 | 47.12 |
| 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: 40.8 (Estimated · #63/126)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra public-lane score: 28 (Supported · #95/126)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | 44.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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% | 70.9% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| 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 | 56.4% | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 37.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 50.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.4 (Estimated · #67/149)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra public-lane score: 21.9 (Supported · #115/149)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | 71.9% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | 89.0% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | 44.6% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 56.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 72.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra public-lane score: 70.8 (#20/29)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | 61.9% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 3.1% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 70.4 (#32/54)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | 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 · #74/182)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra public-lane score: 50.3 (Estimated · #78/182)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | 87% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | 87.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | 86.8% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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% | 26.7% | Kimi K2.5 |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 26.7% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Nemotron 3 Ultra
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 87.3 (#8/17)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra public-lane score: 89.2 (#7/17)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 82.3% | 83% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| 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 Ultra public-lane score: 92.1 (#20/146)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- Nemotron 3 Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3 Ultra | 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 Nemotron 3 Ultra?

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 Ultra?

The widest category gap is in coding, where the averages are 38.4 for Kimi K2.5 and 21.9 for Nemotron 3 Ultra.

### 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 Ultra cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3 Ultra currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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