Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Llama 3.1-405B

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.5 leads 51.8 to 18.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 92.2% for Kimi K2.5 and 9.7% for Llama 3.1-405B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
Kimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index48.130.7
Released2026-01-272024-07-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$2.25—
Results tracked5142

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
WeirdML45.6%21.4%
LMArena Coding14741291
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
SciCode49%—
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
Cybench—7.5%
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
SimpleBench46.8%23%
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%45%
LMArena Hard Prompts14531269
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03128.75
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
DTBench—61.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
ForecastBench—59.9
HellaSwag—89.2%
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%9.7%
LMArena Math14701281
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
Omni-MATH—24.9%
MATH Level 5—49.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond87.6%50.9%
LMArena Expert14661243
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—17.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—52.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
MMLU—84.5%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English14331248
LMArena Chinese14951242
LMArena French14541279
LMArena German14411252
LMArena Japanese14211208
LMArena Korean14101184
LMArena Russian14351265
LMArena Spanish14501260

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Instruction Following14311259
IFEval—81.1%

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query14451266
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text14451284
LMArena Creative Writing14231262
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579870
LMArena Multi-Turn14441297
WildBench—78.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Llama 3.1-405B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.5 or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Llama 3.1-405B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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