Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen3-4B

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-4B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.5 leads 51.8 to 29.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 92.2% for Kimi K2.5 and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3-4B specifications
Kimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.131.9
Released2026-01-272025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$2.25—
Results tracked516

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
SciCode49%—
WeirdML45.6%—
LMArena Coding1474—
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles12%4%
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
CritPt3.1%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1453—
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03—

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%52.2%
LMArena Math1470—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond87.6%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%5.7%
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
LMArena Expert1466—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), Qwen3-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
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), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1445—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text1445—
LMArena Creative Writing1423—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LMArena Multi-Turn1444—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Qwen3-4B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3-4B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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