Model comparison
GPT-5.2 vs Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo
GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 45.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 8 categories and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.2 leads 50.2 to 32.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 49% for GPT-5.2 and 20% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo.
- Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 54.1 | 45.8 |
| Released | 2025-12-11 | 2025-11-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 400K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.75 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $14 | — |
| Results tracked | 67 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.2 leads
GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1416 | 1322 |
| LMArena Coding | 1447 | 1454 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.8% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 72.8% | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 66.7% | — |
| GSO | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 72.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,294 | — |
| AlgoTune | 2.05 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 64.9% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 55.9% | — |
| GDPval | 49.7% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 2.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 83% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 32.2% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 81.6% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 89.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 41.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1207 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 75.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 3,591 | — |
Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads
GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 49% | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1445 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 52.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 45.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 83.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 86.2% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 10.4% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 23% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 23% | — |
| DTBench | 90.9% | — |
| LMCA | 43.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 153.45 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.1 | — |
Math GPT-5.2 leads
GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 96.1% | 83.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1440 | 1429 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 67.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 31.7% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 72% | — |
| ProofBench | 15% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 40.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 18.8% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads
GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91.4% | 84.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1445 | 1439 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 27.8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 37.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.4% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1268 | — |
| VPCT | 84% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1405 | — |
Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads
GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | 1398 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1460 | 1456 |
| LMArena French | 1455 | 1425 |
| LMArena German | 1448 | 1390 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1420 | 1357 |
| LMArena Korean | 1392 | 1330 |
| LMArena Russian | 1440 | 1391 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1406 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1417 | 1403 |
Long Context Too close to call
GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1428 | 1415 |
| CL-bench | 18.2% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads
GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1439 | 1415 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1401 | 1374 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1458 | 1414 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1703 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5.2 better than Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo?
GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 45.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-5.2 or Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better for coding?
GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21.