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Kimi K2 vs Kimi K2 Thinking

A head-to-head benchmark comparison of Kimi K2 vs Kimi K2 Thinking across 53 evaluations. Kimi K2 Thinking leads on the most benchmarks (27).

The models

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

Kimi K2 is our latest Mixture-of-Experts model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance in.

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Leads 27
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 Kimi K2 Kimi K2 Thinking
agentic
BrowseComp 14.1% 60.2%
BrowseComp-Zh 28.8 62.3
FinSearchComp-T3 10.4 47.4
GAIA 57.7
MCP-Mark 20.4
MCP-Universe 35.6
Seal-0 25.2 56.3
TAU-bench Airline 51.2%
TAU-bench Retail 73.9%
Terminal-Bench 2.0 44.5% 47.1%
Tool-Decathlon 17.6
WebWalkerQA 63
xbench-DeepSearch 50
τ²-Bench (TAU2) 74.3
code
Codeforces Elo 1,574
FullStackBench 54%
HumanEval 87.1%
LiveCodeBench 48.95% 82.6%
LiveCodeBench v6 56.1% 83.1%
MBPP 89.96%
SWE-bench Verified 69.2% 71.3%
SciCode 30.7% 44.8%
coding
Aider Benchmark 85.34
Multi-SWE-bench 33.5 41.9
MultiPL-E 73.54
OJ-Bench (cpp) 25.5 48.7
SWE-Bench Multilingual 55.9 61.1
general
ArenaHard v2 69.88
C-Eval 91.12%
IFEval 90.99%
Longform Writing 62.8 73.8
MMLU 89.5%
MMLU-Pro 81.9% 84.6%
MMLU-Redux 92.7% 94.4%
MultiChallenge 54.1%
long-context
Frames 72 87
math
AIME 2024 67.24%
AIME 2025 75.2% 100%
CNMO 2024 68.92%
HMMT February 2025 70.4% 97.5%
HMMT November 2025 89.2
IMOAnswerBench 45.8 78.6
Omni-MATH 62.42
UGMathBench 69.97
reasoning
ARC-AGI-1 22.19
BBEH 34.83
FinanceReasoning 84.83
GPQA Diamond 74.2% 84.5%
Humanity's Last Exam 21.7% 51%
ZebraLogic 85.5%
safety
HealthBench 43.8% 58%
SimpleQA 31%
tool-use
BFCL v3 71.1%

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, Kimi K2 vs Kimi K2 Thinking?

Across the 53 benchmarks compared here, Kimi K2 Thinking leads on the most (27). 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?

Kimi K2 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 53 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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