# Kimi K2.5 vs ZAYA1-8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and ZAYA1-8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-zaya1-8b
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick ZAYA1-8B 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

- ZAYA1-8B leads overall 56 to 54.02.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 84.4 for Kimi K2.5 and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is LiveCodeBench v6 in Coding, with scores of 85.0% and 65.8%.
- ZAYA1-8B 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 | ZAYA1-8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 131K |
| Overall Score | 54.02 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 46.5 (Estimated · #79/154)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 46.1 (Estimated · #82/154)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | 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 |
| Gert Labs | 45.88% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 39.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 50.4 (Estimated · #60/154)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | 65.8% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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 |
| SciCode | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 65.8 (#24/48)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | ZAYA1-8B | 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)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 52 (Estimated · #68/184)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 43.6 (Estimated · #120/184)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | 71% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | 71.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | 74.2% | Kimi K2.5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 84.4 (#41/124)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 23.5 (#121/124)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | 85.6% | Kimi K2.5 |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | ZAYA1-8B | 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: 62.1 (#4/7)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 96.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 89.1% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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% | 71.6% | Kimi K2.5 |
| 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 | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or ZAYA1-8B?

ZAYA1-8B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K2.5 and ZAYA1-8B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 84.4 for Kimi K2.5 and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.

### 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 ZAYA1-8B cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-8B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [ZAYA1-8B vs Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)](/compare/kimi-k2-5-reasoning-vs-zaya1-8b)
- [Kimi K2.5 vs ZAYA1-74B-Preview](/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-zaya1-74b-preview)
- [ZAYA1-8B vs ZAYA1-74B-Preview](/compare/zaya1-74b-preview-vs-zaya1-8b)

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