# GPT-5.5 Instant vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

> GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-5-instant-vs-kimi-k2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher in 6 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 40.1 to 26.1.
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 42.5 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 99 | 134 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.57 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.7 (#73)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1433 | 1399 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| SciCode | 48.6% | — |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-5.5 Instant: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |

## Reasoning

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.2 (#149)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.48 | 146.02 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |

## Math

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.1 (#241)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1420 | 1396 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 26.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 68.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#68)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1409 | 1363 |
| GPQA Diamond | 82.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |

## Multimodal

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 39.3 (#48)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): —

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1250 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1403 | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 53.0 (#76)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1417 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1457 | 1416 |
| LMArena French | 1428 | 1379 |
| LMArena German | 1410 | 1386 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1408 | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | 1393 | 1324 |
| LMArena Russian | 1430 | 1384 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1430 | 1383 |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.4 (#94)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1407 | 1347 |
| IFEval | — | 85% |

## Long Context

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#92)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1422 | 1353 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-5.5 Instant: 62.0 (#81)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 Instant | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1420 | 1349 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1434 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-5.5 Instant better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-5.5 Instant or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (43.7 vs 43.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 Instant and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 Instant has 27 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.