# Kimi K2.5 vs Phi-3.5-mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and Phi-3.5-mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-phi-3-5-mini
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Kimi K2.5 and Phi-3.5-mini share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Kimi K2.5 has the larger published context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Microsoft |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 53.04 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 68 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 41.2 (Estimated · #62/124)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | 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 |
| 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 |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.4 (Estimated · #66/148)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini | 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% | 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 |
| NL2Repo | 32% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HumanEval | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 72.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BBH | Coming soon | 69% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 70.4 (#32/54)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 51.3 (Estimated · #73/181)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | 30.4% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | 47.4% | 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 69% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 55.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 87.3 (#8/17)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini | 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 |
| MGSM | Coming soon | 47.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.8 (#46/128)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Phi-3.5-mini | 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 |
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Kimi K2.5 and Phi-3.5-mini?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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