Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash

Kimi K2.5 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (48.1 vs 48.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

MiMo-V2.6-Flash Xiaomi

48.5

Rank #55 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 4 categories and MiMo-V2.6-Flash in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 leads 53.6 to 42.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 3.1% for Kimi K2.5 and 12% for MiMo-V2.6-Flash.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper at $0.14 / $0.28 per million input/output tokens, against $0.45 / $2.25 for Kimi K2.5.
  • MiMo-V2.6-Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash specifications
Kimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
ProviderMoonshot AIXiaomi
Noometry Index48.148.5
Released2026-01-272026-09-21
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K1.05M
Max output262K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.45$0.14
Output $ / M tokens$2.25$0.28
Results tracked5119

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Category by category

Coding MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 53.4 (#30)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
LMArena WebDev14371637
SciCode49%51.3%
LMArena Coding14741504
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
WeirdML45.6%—
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 36.5 (#66)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
CritPt3.1%12%
LMArena Hard Prompts14531482
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03—

Math Too close to call

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 51.9 (#52)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
LMArena Math14701468
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%—
ProofBench—63%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 42.2 (#99)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
LMArena Expert14661501
GPQA Diamond87.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 40.5 (#47)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
LMArena Vision12691259
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Too close to call

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 54.0 (#51)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
LMArena Non-English14331434
LMArena Chinese14951511
LMArena French14541475
LMArena Russian14351409
LMArena Spanish14501456
LMArena German1441—
LMArena Japanese1421—
LMArena Korean1410—

Instruction Following MiMo-V2.6-Flash leads

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 76.8 (#35)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14311463

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 44.8 (#57)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
LMArena Longer Query14451463
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), MiMo-V2.6-Flash: 63.1 (#67)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.6-Flash
LMArena Text14451455
LMArena Creative Writing14231400
LMArena Multi-Turn14441451
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than MiMo-V2.6-Flash?

Kimi K2.5 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (48.1 vs 48.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 or MiMo-V2.6-Flash?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Kimi K2.5 lists at $0.45 and $2.25.

Is Kimi K2.5 or MiMo-V2.6-Flash better for coding?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.4 versus 48.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

MiMo-V2.6-Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and MiMo-V2.6-Flash share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and MiMo-V2.6-Flash has 19.

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