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Kimi Linear

A head-to-head benchmark comparison of Kimi Linear across 17 evaluations.

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Oct 2025

We introduce Kimi Linear, a hybrid linear attention architecture that, for the first time, outperforms full attention under fair comparisons across various scen.

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Benchmark comparison

Benchmark Kimi Linear
code
LiveCodeBench v6 26%
coding
EvalPlus 61
general
HELMET 90%
LiveBench 45.2
LongBench v2 35%
MMLU 77%
MMLU-Pro 67.4%
MMLU-Redux 80.3%
RULER 84.3%
long-context
Frames 58.8
RepoQA 68.5
math
AIME 2025 21.3%
HMMT February 2025 12.5%
MATH-500 81.2%
PolyMath-en 43.6
reasoning
BIG-Bench Hard 69.4%
GPQA Diamond 62.1%

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 of these models is best for coding? β–Ά

Kimi Linear has the strongest result on LiveCodeBench v6 among the models compared here. See the code-category rows in the table for the full picture.

How many benchmarks are compared? β–Ά

This comparison covers 17 benchmarks on which at least one of the selected models has a published score.

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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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