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Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs MiniMax-M2.5

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax

38.3

Rank #188 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 7 categories and MiniMax-M2.5 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 47.4 to 26.9.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
ProviderMoonshot AIMiniMax
Noometry Index45.838.3
Released2025-11-062026-02-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked2133

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Category by category

Coding MiniMax-M2.5 leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), MiniMax-M2.5: 48.1 (#58)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena WebDev13221387
LMArena Coding14541381
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.3%
ALE-Bench—618.17

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, MiniMax-M2.5: 30.4 (#77)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
Terminal-Bench—42.7%
Vending-Bench 2—-23.16

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), MiniMax-M2.5: 17.5 (#292)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Hard Prompts14281372
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—16.8%
ARC-AGI-1—63.7%
Chess Puzzles20%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.68

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), MiniMax-M2.5: 26.9 (#253)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Math14291378
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%—
ProofBench—4%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), MiniMax-M2.5: 39.2 (#135)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Expert14391379
GPQA Diamond84.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.1%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), MiniMax-M2.5: 47.1 (#152)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Non-English13981338
LMArena Chinese14561393
LMArena French14251362
LMArena German13901362
LMArena Japanese13571171
LMArena Korean13301232
LMArena Russian13911358
LMArena Spanish14061354

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), MiniMax-M2.5: 71.5 (#148)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Instruction Following14031353

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), MiniMax-M2.5: 37.5 (#216)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Longer Query14151366
CL-bench—11.4%
CL-bench Life—6.3%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), MiniMax-M2.5: 53.9 (#153)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMiniMax-M2.5
LMArena Text14151359
LMArena Creative Writing13741331
LMArena Multi-Turn14141364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1361

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than MiniMax-M2.5?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or MiniMax-M2.5 better for coding?

MiniMax-M2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.1 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and MiniMax-M2.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and MiniMax-M2.5 has 33.

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