Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 leads 53.6 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 87.6% for Kimi K2.5.

Side by side

DBRXKimi K2.5
ProviderDatabricksMoonshot AI
Noometry Index29.448.1
Released2024-03-272026-01-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$2.25
Results tracked2151

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
LMArena Coding11321474
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—70.8%
LMArena WebDev—1437
SWE-bench Multilingual—67.3%
SciCode—49%
WeirdML—45.6%
ALE-Bench—821.65
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DBRX: —, Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
Terminal-Bench—43.2%
OSWorld—63.3%
Vending-Bench 2—1,198

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
LMArena Hard Prompts11131453
ARC-AGI-2—11.8%
SimpleBench—46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—78.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—69.9%
ARC-AGI-1—65.3%
CritPt—3.1%
Chess Puzzles—12%
EnigmaEval—3.4%
Thematic Generalization—69.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—148.03

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
LMArena Math11451470
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—62.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—92.2%
MATH Level 511.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—27.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
GPQA Diamond32.9%87.6%
LMArena Expert10761466
Humanity's Last Exam—24.4%
SimpleQA Verified—34.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
LMArena Vision—1269
LMArena Document—1430

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
LMArena Non-English10711433
LMArena Chinese10681495
LMArena French10961454
LMArena German10571441
LMArena Japanese9901421
LMArena Korean9931410
LMArena Russian10781435
LMArena Spanish10641450

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
LMArena Instruction Following11121431

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
LMArena Longer Query11121445
Fiction.LiveBench—86.1%
CL-bench—19.3%
CL-bench Life—13.2%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53)

BenchmarkDBRXKimi K2.5
LMArena Text11191445
LMArena Creative Writing11041423
LMArena Multi-Turn11111444
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1579

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX or Kimi K2.5 better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DBRX and Kimi K2.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 has 51.

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