The Model Index
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Kimi K2

MoonshotReleased 11 Jul 2025Open
132120–144Index score#112 · provisional, limited data
1/ 8Core tests taken1 of 6 areas · plus 6 anchor tests
−15Versus the frontier at releasebest then: o3Replaced by Kimi K2 (Sep 2025)
$0.57/ $2.3Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
131KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o1 reached this score 7 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
no result
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsno evidence yet
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
28%
Agentsno evidence yet
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

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#112of 219 · 132
Epoch Capabilities Indexoverall capability from many benchmarks#72of 239 · 146.0

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

Replaced by Kimi K2 (Sep 2025); it no longer leads any category among current models.

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

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released11 Jul 2025
Announcementkimi.com ↗
Release entryKimi K2
Scored asKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–

Moonshot releasesaround this one