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kimi-k2.5-instant

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

kimi-k2.5-instant 1420.1 kimi-k2.5-instant · 95% interval 1413.7–1426.6 · 8,376 votes · 2026-10-15

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,449.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.31 – 1,474.49

544 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,483.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,470.21 – 1,496.92

1873 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,381.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,365.77 – 1,397.70

1325 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,432.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,422.69 – 1,442.92

3243 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,409.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.78 – 1,418.28

5780 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,439.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,417.17 – 1,462.38

632 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,403.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,357.52 – 1,449.14

158 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,412.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,366.58 – 1,458.77

144 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,443.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,434.87 – 1,451.63

4729 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,449.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.13 – 1,463.34

1797 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,405.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,390.41 – 1,419.61

1544 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,396.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.84 – 1,411.35

1496 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,425.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.39 – 1,449.95

532 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,433.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,417.19 – 1,449.78

1263 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,437.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.21 – 1,467.35

361 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,415.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,391.48 – 1,439.94

572 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,470.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,459.93 – 1,481.39

2886 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,397.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.16 – 1,410.30

1946 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,429.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.18 – 1,441.76

2343 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,377.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,330.67 – 1,425.08

138 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,435.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,423.99 – 1,447.42

2390 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,442.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.66 – 1,466.40

555 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,427.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,412.23 – 1,442.15

1497 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,406.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.31 – 1,414.37

5133 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,420.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.68 – 1,426.60

8376 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,379.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,337.51 – 1,422.19

176 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,403.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.23 – 1,420.58

1133 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-instant

1,446.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.99 – 1,478.00

347 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
kimi-k2.5-instant
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

kimi-k2.5-instant

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
Modified MIT