Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Ring-2.6-1T

Kimi K2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#57); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Ring-2.6-1T in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Kimi K2.5 leads 48.8 to 40.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 49% for Kimi K2.5 and 42.4% for Ring-2.6-1T.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
Kimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
ProviderMoonshot AIAnt Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index48.136.9
Released2026-01-272026-05-14
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$2.25—
Results tracked513

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
SciCode49%42.4%
ALE-Bench821.65432.57
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
WeirdML45.6%—
LMArena Coding1474—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
CritPt3.1%3.7%
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1453—
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03—

Math Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%—
LMArena Math1470—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
GPQA Diamond87.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—
LMArena Expert1466—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
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), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1445—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Ring-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1445—
LMArena Creative Writing1423—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LMArena Multi-Turn1444—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Ring-2.6-1T?

Kimi K2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#57); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Kimi K2.5 or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Ring-2.6-1T share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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