Noometry

Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs QwQ-32B

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 8 categories and QwQ-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 leads 53.6 to 37.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 92.2% for Kimi K2.5 and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5QwQ-32B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index48.139.8
Released2026-01-272024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$2.25—
Results tracked5136

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14741333
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
SciCode49%—
WeirdML45.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles12%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14531325
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03137.6
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%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%59.2%
LMArena Math14701359
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond87.6%65.3%
LMArena Expert14661324
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14331305
LMArena Chinese14951378
LMArena French14541336
LMArena German14411313
LMArena Japanese14211262
LMArena Korean14101279
LMArena Russian14351297
LMArena Spanish14501354

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14311297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query14451308
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkKimi K2.5QwQ-32B
LMArena Text14451329
LMArena Creative Writing14231288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15791257
LMArena Multi-Turn14441314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than QwQ-32B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.5 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and QwQ-32B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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