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Kimi K2

Moonshot AIEstablishedReleased Jul 1, 2025
Data verified
Overall Score
27.19Public #189 of 200Verified #88 of 99
Arena Elo
1051
Eligible category ranks
0of 8
Price (1M tokens)
$0.6 in / $2.5 out
API pricing
Speed
43tok/s
Context
128K

Evidence coverage

14 of 321 tracked benchmarks are published. 2 are verified and 12 provisional. 7 of 8 categories are measured.

Updated July 20, 2026Methodology
Published / tracked
14 / 321
Verified
2
Provisional
12
Categories with evidence
7 / 8

Evidence by category

  • Agentic1 benchmark
    Reported
  • Coding1 benchmark
    Reported
  • Reasoning2 benchmarks
    Reported
  • Knowledge6 benchmarks
    Reported
  • Math2 benchmarks
    Verified
  • Multilingual0 benchmarks
    Not measured
  • Multimodal1 benchmark
    Reported
  • Inst. Following1 benchmark
    Reported
ProprietaryNon-Reasoning
Confidence:
Low
base

Kimi K2 ranks #189 out of 200 models on the public leaderboard with an overall score of 27.19/100. It also ranks #88 out of 99 on the verified leaderboard. While not a frontier model, it offers specific advantages depending on the use case.

Kimi K2 is a proprietary model with a 128K token context window. It processes queries without explicit chain-of-thought reasoning, offering faster response times and lower token usage.

This profile currently has 14 of 321 tracked benchmarks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated benchmark rows publicly, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.

Peer position

Exact provisional scores and ranks for the closest listed peers. A score can appear before a model clears the evidence threshold for a rank, so equal scores can have different rank states.

Range 21.3927.44

  1. GPT-4 Turbo
    OpenAI
    #18827.44
    GPT-4 Turbo is #188 with a score of 27.44.
    Compare
  2. Kimi K2Current model
    Moonshot AI
    #18927.19
    Kimi K2 is #189 with a score of 27.19.
  3. MiniMax M1 80k
    MiniMax
    #19025.12
    MiniMax M1 80k is #190 with a score of 25.12.
    Compare
  4. Llama 4 Maverick
    Meta
    #19123.49
    Llama 4 Maverick is #191 with a score of 23.49.
    Compare
  5. Phi-4
    Microsoft
    #19222.69
    Phi-4 is #192 with a score of 22.69.
    Compare
  6. Gemini 1.0 Pro
    Google
    #19321.78
    Gemini 1.0 Pro is #193 with a score of 21.78.
    Compare
  7. Claude 3 Haiku
    Anthropic
    #19421.39
    Claude 3 Haiku is #194 with a score of 21.39.
    Compare

Category percentile

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Relative position among models eligible for each sourced category. A higher percentile means a stronger position within that category's ranked cohort; 100 is highest.

No eligible category percentile is available from the published evidence yet.

Category evidence

Scores and ranks appear only where this model has published benchmark evidence. Categories without displayable source records remain not measured.

Category scores, ranks, weighting, benchmark coverage, and evidence status
CategoryScore
AgenticRank Not rankedWeight 22%1 benchmarkReported52.7
CodingRank Not rankedWeight 20%1 benchmarkReported57.3
ReasoningWeight 17%2 benchmarksReportedScore pending
KnowledgeRank Not rankedWeight 12%6 benchmarksReported57.2
MathRank Not rankedWeight 5%2 benchmarksVerified39.3
MultilingualWeight 7%0 benchmarksNot measuredNot measured
MultimodalWeight 12%1 benchmarkReportedScore pending
Inst. FollowingRank Not rankedWeight 5%1 benchmarkReported89.8

Chatbot Arena performance

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Chatbot Arena Elo, confidence interval, and vote count by evaluation view
ViewEloConfidence intervalVotes
Text Overall1051Not availableNot available

Benchmark Details

Rows below have a displayable published verification record. Each source link and provenance note remains in the page HTML while its category is closed. Source-unverified manual rows and generated rows stay hidden.

Agentic1 benchmark
τ²-bench resultsReported

τ²-Bench Tool-Agent-User Evaluation

61.1%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Coding1 benchmark
AA-SciCodeReported

Artificial Analysis SciCode

34.5%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Reasoning2 benchmarks
AA-LCRReported

Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning

51.0%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
CritPtReported

Critical Physics Tasks

0.0%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Knowledge6 benchmarks
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexReported
19.4%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-GPQA DiamondReported

Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond

76.6%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-HLEReported

Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam

7.0%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-Omniscience IndexReported

Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index

-27.5%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-Omniscience AccuracyReported

Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy

26.8%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateReported

Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate

74.2%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Math2 benchmarks
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Benchmark exact

FrontierMath v2 Tiers 1-3

21.404%Weighted 30%
Source: Epoch AI FrontierMath v2 leaderboardProvenance: Epoch AI reports FrontierMath v2 Tiers 1-3 at 21.404% for moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking. BenchLM selects the highest published thinking effort for the model and stores the v2 benchmark slice separately.
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Benchmark exact

FrontierMath v2 Tier 4

0.000%Weighted 10%
Source: Epoch AI FrontierMath v2 leaderboardProvenance: Epoch AI reports FrontierMath v2 Tier 4 at 0% for moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking. BenchLM selects the highest published thinking effort for the model and stores the v2 benchmark slice separately.
Multimodal1 benchmark
Design Arena WebsiteReported

Design Arena Website Elo

1083Display only
Source: OpenRouter model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only Design Arena Website Elo synced from OpenRouter model benchmark metadata. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.
Inst. Following1 benchmark
AA-IFBenchReported

Artificial Analysis IFBench

41.5%Display only
Source: Artificial Analysis model benchmarksProvenance: Display-only row synced from the current Artificial Analysis model payload. It is excluded from BenchLM weighted scoring.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Kimi K2 perform overall in AI benchmarks?

Kimi K2 has 14 published benchmark scores on BenchLM, but it does not yet have enough non-generated coverage to receive a global overall rank.

Is Kimi K2 good for knowledge and understanding?

Kimi K2 has visible benchmark coverage in knowledge and understanding, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Kimi K2 good for coding and programming?

Kimi K2 has visible benchmark coverage in coding and programming, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Kimi K2 good for mathematics?

Kimi K2 has visible benchmark coverage in mathematics, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Kimi K2 good for reasoning and logic?

Kimi K2 has visible benchmark coverage in reasoning and logic, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Kimi K2 good for agentic tool use and computer tasks?

Kimi K2 has visible benchmark coverage in agentic tool use and computer tasks, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Kimi K2 good for multimodal and grounded tasks?

Kimi K2 has visible benchmark coverage in multimodal and grounded tasks, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Is Kimi K2 good for instruction following?

Kimi K2 has visible benchmark coverage in instruction following, but BenchLM does not currently assign it a global category rank there.

Does Kimi K2 have full benchmark coverage on BenchLM?

Not yet. Kimi K2 currently has 14 published benchmark scores out of the 321 benchmarks BenchLM tracks. BenchLM only exposes non-generated public benchmark rows, so missing categories stay blank until a sourced evaluation is available.

What is the context window size of Kimi K2?

Kimi K2 has a published context window of 128K, which determines how much text it can process in a single interaction.

Last updated: July 20, 2026 · Runtime metrics stay blank until BenchLM has a sourced snapshot.

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