Model comparison

INTELLECT-1 vs Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#60); INTELLECT-1 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Kimi K2.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

INTELLECT-1 and Kimi K2.6 specifications
INTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
ProviderHugging FaceMoonshot AI
Noometry Index—47.7
Released2024-11-292026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.95
Output $ / M tokens—$4
Results tracked751

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1509
SciCode—53.5%
WeirdML—55.9%
LMArena Coding—1488
ALE-Bench—1,093

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
ExploitBench—18.4%
GBAEval—0.9%
GDP.pdf—12%
Vending-Bench 2—6,205

Reasoning Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
Epoch Capabilities Index100.86151.05
NYT Connections (extended)—87.2%
CritPt—8%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EBR-Bench—2.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1470
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—37.3%
BIG-Bench Hard34.9%—
HellaSwag71.4%—
WinoGrande65.8%—

Math Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41)

Knowledge Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond—90.8%
SimpleQA Verified—34.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.8%
LMArena Expert—1491
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
MMLU49.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision—1283
Blueprint-Bench 2—3.9%
Furniture Assembly—21.7%
LMArena Document—1451

Multilingual Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
LMArena Non-English—1446
LMArena Chinese—1521
LMArena French—1471
LMArena German—1450
LMArena Japanese—1443
LMArena Korean—1427
LMArena Russian—1446
LMArena Spanish—1464

Instruction Following Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
LMArena Instruction Following—1451

Long Context Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
LMArena Longer Query—1468

Writing & Preference Not comparable

INTELLECT-1: —, Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkINTELLECT-1Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text—1455
LMArena Creative Writing—1434
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1725
EQ-Bench 4—1202
LMArena Multi-Turn—1453

Frequently asked questions

Is INTELLECT-1 better than Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#60); INTELLECT-1 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do INTELLECT-1 and Kimi K2.6 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. INTELLECT-1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.6 has 51.

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