Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Kimi K2.5 Instant

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.4

Rank #17 Confirmed

Kimi K2.5 Instant Moonshot AI

42.9

Rank #92 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and Kimi K2.5 Instant in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.5 to 36.6.
  • Kimi K2.5 Instant has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Kimi K2.5 Instant specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
ProviderAnthropicMoonshot AI
Noometry Index58.442.9
Released2026-04-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6618

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.9 (#10), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.3 (#95)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena WebDev15571404
LMArena Coding15191483
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#8), Kimi K2.5 Instant: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.7 (#24), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 28.5 (#88)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Hard Prompts15071443
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.39—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.5 (#20), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 36.6 (#105)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Math14991443
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench54%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#20), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.5 (#121)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Expert15211438
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.5 (#29), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.5 (#47)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Vision13171254
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.5 (#9), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.2 (#89)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Non-English14811406
LMArena Chinese15301450
LMArena French15051403
LMArena German14941413
LMArena Korean14661378
LMArena Russian14941404
LMArena Spanish14971448
LMArena Japanese1472—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.6 (#9), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.5 (#61)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Instruction Following14981430

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.1 (#24), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.8 (#82)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Longer Query15051435

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.3 (#8), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.8 (#91)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Kimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Text14911420
LMArena Creative Writing14861379
LMArena Multi-Turn15061427
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Kimi K2.5 Instant?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Kimi K2.5 Instant better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 42.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Kimi K2.5 Instant share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18.

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