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Kimi K2 Thinking

MoonshotReleased 6 Nov 2025OpenReasoning
144132–156Index score#75 of 229 models
3/ 8Core tests taken3 of 6 areas · plus 6 anchor tests
−10Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5
$0.60/ $2.5Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
262KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o3 reached this score 7 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
84%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
36%
Agentsno evidence yet
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksevidence
METR time horizon
54 min

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

The Model Indexindependent tests, our method#75of 219 · 144

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

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Facts and sources

Released6 Nov 2025
Announcementkimi.com ↗
Release entryKimi K2 Thinking
Scored asKimi K2 Thinking
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–

Moonshot releasesaround this one