Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 leads 53.6 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.6% for Kimi K2.5 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Kimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderMoonshot AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index48.129.7
Released2026-01-272024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$2.25—
Results tracked5113

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
SciCode49%—
WeirdML45.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1474—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03121.23
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1453—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%—
LMArena Math1470—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond87.6%27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—
LMArena Expert1466—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1433—
LMArena Chinese1495—
LMArena French1454—
LMArena German1441—
LMArena Japanese1421—
LMArena Korean1410—
LMArena Russian1435—
LMArena Spanish1450—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1445—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1445—
LMArena Creative Writing1423—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LMArena Multi-Turn1444—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.5 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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