# Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-qwen3-7-max
- Last updated: October 2, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 19
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.7 Max 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

- Qwen3.7 Max leads overall 63.46 to 53.67.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 55.2 for Kimi K2.5 and 76.3 for Qwen3.7 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 29.5% and 76.4%.
- Qwen3.7 Max is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.7 Max also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 53.67 | 63.46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38 (Estimated · #63/119)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 39.3 (Supported · #60/119)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | 69.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 52.3% | 65.2% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| QwenClawBench | 54.3% | 64.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| 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% | 76.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MCP-Tasks | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 45.88% | 64.27% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.0% | 18.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| JobBench | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 47.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 61.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 40.1 (Estimated · #64/144)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 45.4 (Supported · #54/144)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | 80.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | 60.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE Multilingual | 73% | 78.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE-Rebench | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | 53.5% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 68.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 55.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 76.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 66.8 (#24/49)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | 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: 49.5 (Estimated · #66/171)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 59.8 (Supported · #41/171)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | 73.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | 89.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.1% | 41.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Qwen3.7 Max
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 87.3 (#8/16)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 100 (#1/16)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 82.3% | 87% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| NOVA-63 | 56.0% | 59.0% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 84.4 (#41/125)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 89.2 (#17/125)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | 94.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.1 (#4/7)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 81.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | 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% | 97.1% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| 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 |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 44.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Max?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 55.2 for Kimi K2.5 and 76.3 for Qwen3.7 Max.

### 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 Qwen3.7 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Max currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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