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Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

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 (Thinking) 1444.9 Kimi K2.5 (Thinking) · 95% interval 1441.6–1448.2 · 74,682 votes · 2026-10-28

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,494.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,485.16 – 1,503.37

4587 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,473.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,468.54 – 1,478.80

20752 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,421.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.72 – 1,428.03

12231 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,453.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.03 – 1,457.83

31747 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,441.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,437.54 – 1,446.33

54377 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,465.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,458.43 – 1,473.54

7024 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,453.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,440.39 – 1,466.38

2624 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,441.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,423.86 – 1,458.53

1291 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,453.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.15 – 1,457.02

47876 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,460.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,454.98 – 1,465.29

21041 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,426.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,420.87 – 1,432.29

14392 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,416.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.97 – 1,422.27

15488 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,440.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,432.49 – 1,448.99

5644 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,458.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,452.54 – 1,464.59

11809 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,473.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,463.91 – 1,483.13

4065 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,448.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.44 – 1,456.88

5162 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,468.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,464.42 – 1,473.45

29757 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,424.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.66 – 1,430.32

17895 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,430.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.94 – 1,435.57

24181 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,421.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.42 – 1,443.42

851 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,411.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,394.61 – 1,428.84

1361 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,444.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.59 – 1,448.99

29795 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,470.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,460.78 – 1,479.41

4171 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,444.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,438.29 – 1,450.20

13138 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,432.36 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.43 – 1,436.29

42932 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,444.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.65 – 1,448.16

74682 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,445.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.56 – 1,460.18

1524 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,435.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.36 – 1,441.84

8814 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

1,449.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,437.10 – 1,462.46

2533 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
Modified MIT