Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 38 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.5

Rank #165 Confirmed

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 38 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2.5 in 10 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.5 leads 31.2 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 14.3% for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 69.9% for Kimi K2.5.
  • Kimi K2.5 is cheaper at $0.45 / $2.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $5 for Claude Haiku 4.5.
  • Kimi K2.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Kimi K2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Kimi K2.5 specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
ProviderAnthropicMoonshot AI
Noometry Index39.548.1
Released2025-10-152026-01-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K262K
Max output64K262K
Input $ / M tokens$1$0.45
Output $ / M tokens$5$2.25
Results tracked5351

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.0 (#78), Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%70.8%
LMArena WebDev13301437
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%67.3%
SciCode43.3%49%
WeirdML45.4%45.6%
LMArena Coding14531474
ALE-Bench653.48821.65
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.6 (#52), Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
Terminal-Bench35.5%43.2%
Vending-Bench 2458.891,198
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard68.7%—
DeepResearch Bench45.5%—
OSWorld—63.3%
BALROG31.2%—
ExploitBench13.7%—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#320), Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
ARC-AGI-24%11.8%
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%69.9%
ARC-AGI-147.7%65.3%
CritPt0%3.1%
Chess Puzzles8%12%
LMArena Hard Prompts14201453
Epoch Capabilities Index142.41148.03
SimpleBench—46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—78.5%
EnigmaEval—3.4%
Thematic Generalization—69.4%
DTBench73.6%—
LMCA30.9%—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.9 (#78), Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%92.2%
LMArena Math13961470
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%27.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%4.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—62.3%
Omni-MATH56.1%—
MATH Level 596.4%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.7 (#153), Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
GPQA Diamond71.2%87.6%
SimpleQA Verified13.2%34.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%14.2%
LMArena Expert14421466
Humanity's Last Exam—24.4%
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.5%—

Multimodal Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 26.8 (#118), Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
LMArena Document14201430
LMArena Vision—1269
Blueprint-Bench 20%—

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 49.9 (#129), Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
LMArena Non-English13771433
LMArena Chinese14171495
LMArena French14081454
LMArena German13751441
LMArena Japanese13391421
LMArena Korean13471410
LMArena Russian13811435
LMArena Spanish14201450

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.4 (#149), Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
LMArena Instruction Following14141431
IFEval80.1%—

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#92), Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
LMArena Longer Query14271445
Fiction.LiveBench—86.1%
CL-bench—19.3%
CL-bench Life—13.2%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 57.9 (#123), Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Kimi K2.5
LMArena Text13961445
LMArena Creative Writing13721423
LMArena Multi-Turn14091444
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1579
WildBench83.9%—
EQ-Bench 41064—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is cheaper. It lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $2.25 per million output tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5 lists at $1 and $5.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Kimi K2.5 better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K2.5 does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Kimi K2.5 share?

38 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 has 51.

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