Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3.7 Plus in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Kimi K2.5 leads 34.2 to 21.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 12% for Kimi K2.5 and 24% for Qwen3.7 Plus.
  • Qwen3.7 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.45 / $2.25 for Kimi K2.5.
  • Qwen3.7 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Kimi K2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus specifications
Kimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.145.3
Released2026-01-272026-06-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K1M
Max output262K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.45$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$2.25$1.60
Results tracked5132

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
SciCode49%45.5%
LMArena Coding14741473
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
FrontierCode—10.2%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
WeirdML45.6%—
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
OSWorld 2.0—2.8%
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%74.8%
CritPt3.1%9.1%
Chess Puzzles12%24%
LMArena Hard Prompts14531460
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03147.37
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84%
LMCA—37.6%

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56)

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
GPQA Diamond87.6%87.9%
LMArena Expert14661467
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision12691279
LMArena Document14301444

Multilingual Too close to call

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Non-English14331445
LMArena Chinese14951510
LMArena French14541473
LMArena German14411471
LMArena Japanese14211413
LMArena Korean14101415
LMArena Russian14351457
LMArena Spanish14501457

Instruction Following Too close to call

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14311440

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Longer Query14451455
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text14451455
LMArena Creative Writing14231439
LMArena Multi-Turn14441460
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Qwen3.7 Plus?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 45.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Kimi K2.5 lists at $0.45 and $2.25.

Is Kimi K2.5 or Qwen3.7 Plus better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 36.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.7 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Plus has 32.

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