# Kimi K2 vs Phi-3.5-mini

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

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Kimi K2 and Phi-3.5-mini share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2 | Phi-3.5-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Microsoft |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 33.15 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $2.50 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 65.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 53.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 47.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HumanEval | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2 public-lane score: 62.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | Coming soon | 69% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2 public-lane score: 36.3 (Estimated · #127/181)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 89.5% | 69% | Kimi K2 |
| GPQA | 75.1% | 30.4% | Kimi K2 |
| SuperGPQA | 57.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.1% | 47.4% | Kimi K2 |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 4.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 55.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

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

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2 public-lane score: 48.4 (#86/128)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 89.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Kimi K2 public-lane score: 0 (#12/12)
- Phi-3.5-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 | Phi-3.5-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 69.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | 49.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 97.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

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

Not yet. The models share only 3 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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- [Kimi K2 profile](/models/kimi-k2)
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