Model comparison
Kimi K2.5 Instant vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.5 Instant leads 36.6 to 18.1.
Side by side
| Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 42.9 | 31.5 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5.60 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.3 (#95), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1483 | 1293 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1404 | — |
| WeirdML | — | 16% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2.5 Instant: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| BALROG | — | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 35.8% |
Reasoning Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 28.5 (#88), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1271 |
| DTBench | — | 62.9% |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.01 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| HellaSwag | — | 84.8% |
| PIQA | — | 82.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 82.3% |
Math Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 36.6 (#105), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1443 | 1283 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 33% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |
Knowledge Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.5 (#121), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1438 | 1245 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 63.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 19.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 94.5% |
| MMLU | — | 85.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 71.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.5 (#47), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1254 | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.2 (#89), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1406 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1450 | 1272 |
| LMArena French | 1403 | 1279 |
| LMArena German | 1413 | 1234 |
| LMArena Korean | 1378 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1404 | 1264 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | 1255 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1180 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.5 (#61), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1430 | 1254 |
| IFEval | — | 80.6% |
Long Context Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.8 (#82), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1282 |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.8 (#91), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1420 | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1379 | 1221 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1427 | 1272 |
| WildBench | — | 80.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2.5 Instant better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Kimi K2.5 Instant or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?
Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 Instant and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.