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GPT-5 vs Kimi K2 Thinking

A head-to-head benchmark comparison of GPT-5 vs Kimi K2 Thinking across 51 evaluations. GPT-5 leads on the most benchmarks (35).

The models

Leads 35
Multimodal Proprietary
Params
Context
Released
Aug 2025

"We are introducing GPT‑5, our best AI system yet. GPT‑5 is a significant leap in intelligence over all our previous models, featuring state-of-the-art performa.

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Language Open (Restricted)
Params
1T
Context
Released
Nov 2025

Today, we are introducing Kimi K2 Thinking, our best open-source thinking model. Built as a thinking agent, it reasons step by step while using tools, achieving.

Full Kimi K2 Thinking specs →

Benchmark comparison

Benchmark GPT-5 Kimi K2 Thinking
agentic
BrowseComp 54.9% 60.2%
BrowseComp-Zh 63 62.3
FinSearchComp-T3 47.4
MCP-Mark 50.9 20.4
MCP-Universe 47.9 35.6
Seal-0 56.3
Terminal-Bench 2.0 35.2% 47.1%
Tool-Decathlon 29 17.6
τ²-Bench (TAU2) 80.2 74.3
code
Codeforces Elo 2,537
FullStackBench 50.92%
LiveCodeBench 84.5% 82.6%
LiveCodeBench v5 82.68%
LiveCodeBench v6 80.6% 83.1%
MBPP 91.72%
SWE-bench Verified 74.9% 71.3%
SciCode 44.8%
coding
Aider Benchmark 95.49
Multi-SWE-bench 41.9
MultiPL-E 76.66
OJ-Bench (cpp) 48.7
SWE-Bench Multilingual 55.3 61.1
general
ArenaHard v2 82.91
C-Eval 88.27%
IFEval 95.38%
Longform Writing 73.8
MMLU-Pro 87.5% 84.6%
MMLU-Redux 92.75% 94.4%
MultiChallenge 69.6%
knowledge
AGIEval 88.56
CMMLU 87.09
TriviaQA 86.32
long-context
Frames 87
math
AIME 2024 94.78%
AIME 2025 94.6% 100%
CNMO 2024 87.93%
HMMT February 2025 93.3% 97.5%
HMMT November 2025 89.2 89.2
IMOAnswerBench 76 78.6
Omni-MATH 82.9
Omni-MATH-HARD 73.61%
UGMathBench 80.18
reasoning
ARC-AGI-1 65.7
BBEH 72.78
FinanceReasoning 89.33
GPQA Diamond 86.05% 84.5%
Humanity's Last Exam 35.2% 51%
ZebraLogic 98%
safety
HealthBench 67.2% 58%
science
PhyBench 48.53
tool-use
BFCL v3 57.21%

Best result per row highlighted in cyan. Each benchmark links to its definition and sources; each model links to its full scorecard.

Frequently asked questions

Which model is best, GPT-5 vs Kimi K2 Thinking?

Across the 51 benchmarks compared here, GPT-5 leads on the most (35). The right choice still depends on your task — check the per-benchmark table above for coding, reasoning and math.

Which of these models is best for coding?

GPT-5 has the strongest result on Codeforces Elo among the models compared here. See the code-category rows in the table for the full picture.

How many benchmarks are compared?

This comparison covers 51 benchmarks on which at least one of the selected models has a published score.

Where do the benchmark scores come from?

Scores are aggregated from official model cards, technical reports and standard public evaluations, and link back to each benchmark's source. They are updated as new results are published.

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