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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 1445.0 kimi-k2.5-thinking · 95% interval 1441.8–1448.3 · 74,759 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-thinking

1,494.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,485.43 – 1,503.61

4615 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,473.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,468.71 – 1,478.98

20765 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,422.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.09 – 1,428.40

12275 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,453.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.02 – 1,457.82

31761 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,442.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,437.73 – 1,446.53

54445 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,465.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,457.91 – 1,473.05

7018 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,453.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,440.51 – 1,466.57

2630 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,441.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,423.68 – 1,458.56

1284 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,453.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,449.36 – 1,457.24

47926 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,460.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,455.05 – 1,465.38

21053 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,427.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.32 – 1,432.74

14416 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,417.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,411.42 – 1,422.73

15507 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,440.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,432.53 – 1,449.05

5653 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,458.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,452.42 – 1,464.48

11814 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,473.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,463.64 – 1,482.90

4063 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,447.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,438.68 – 1,456.13

5172 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,469.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,464.59 – 1,473.63

29773 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,425.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.90 – 1,430.57

17937 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,430.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.84 – 1,435.47

24213 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,422.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.70 – 1,443.92

851 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,411.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.98 – 1,428.32

1359 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,444.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.77 – 1,449.18

29837 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,469.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,460.51 – 1,479.16

4172 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,444.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,438.07 – 1,449.99

13161 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,432.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.71 – 1,436.57

42995 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,445.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.76 – 1,448.27

74759 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,445.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.62 – 1,460.30

1522 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,435.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.57 – 1,442.06

8839 votes

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

kimi-k2.5-thinking

1,449.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.47 – 1,461.95

2525 votes

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

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

kimi-k2.5-thinking

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
Modified MIT