Noometry

Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen1.5-110B

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2.5 leads 65.1 to 38.0.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.134.2
Released2026-01-272024-04-25
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$2.25—
Results tracked5120

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Coding14741184
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
SciCode49%—
WeirdML45.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35%
BigCodeBench Complete—44.4%
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), Qwen1.5-110B: —

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts14531168
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%—
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03—
ForecastBench—57.7

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math14701185
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert14661144
GPQA Diamond87.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), Qwen1.5-110B: —

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English14331142
LMArena Chinese14951206
LMArena French14541151
LMArena German14411123
LMArena Japanese14211074
LMArena Korean14101044
LMArena Russian14351118
LMArena Spanish14501142

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following14311158

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query14451157
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text14451175
LMArena Creative Writing14231148
LMArena Multi-Turn14441160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.5 or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Qwen1.5-110B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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