# Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen1.5-32B

> Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-qwen1-5-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 leads 53.6 to 13.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.6% for Kimi K2.5 and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 48.1 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 57 | 293 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.45 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1474 | 1155 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.8% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 70.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1437 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 67.3% | — |
| SciCode | 49% | — |
| WeirdML | 45.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 42% |
| ALE-Bench | 821.65 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48)
- Qwen1.5-32B: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 43.2% | — |
| OSWorld | 63.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,198 | — |

## Reasoning

- Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1453 | 1130 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 11.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 78.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 69.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 65.3% | — |
| CritPt | 3.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.4% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 69.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.03 | — |

## Math

- Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1470 | 1155 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 62.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 92.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 27.9% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% | 30.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1466 | 1126 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 24.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.2% | — |
| MMLU | — | 74.4% |

## Multimodal

- Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39)
- Qwen1.5-32B: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1430 | — |

## Multilingual

- Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1433 | 1106 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | 1177 |
| LMArena French | 1454 | 1101 |
| LMArena German | 1441 | 1058 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1421 | 1027 |
| LMArena Korean | 1410 | 1008 |
| LMArena Russian | 1435 | 1073 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1450 | 1089 |

## Instruction Following

- Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1431 | 1116 |

## Long Context

- Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1445 | 1146 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 86.1% | — |
| CL-bench | 19.3% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 13.2% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1445 | 1137 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1423 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1140 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1579 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Kimi K2.5 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Kimi K2.5 or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.