Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Thinking launch post cover

Cost/1M tokens

input
$0.60
cached
$0.15
output
$2.50
Context
262Ktokens
Released
1y ago
Size
1Tparameters

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Arena leaderboards and other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

How it ranks

Against its predecessor, similarly priced models and the models ranked around it.

DeepSWE 1.1

Best pass@1 per model · Higher is better

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1

Arena Text

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Not ranked on Arena Text yet

Arena WebDev

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Not ranked on Arena WebDev yet

Arena Search

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Not ranked on Arena Search yet

Agent Arena

Best IPS score per model · Higher is better

Not ranked on Agent Arena yet

FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#22 of 58

  1. 35.6%
  2. 25.9%
    GPT-5.4 NanoNearby rank
  3. 23.1%
  4. 21.4%
    Kimi K2 Thinking
  5. 21.0%
    Qwen3.5 PlusNearby rank
  6. 20.7%
    Claude Opus 4.5Nearby rank
  7. 8.5%
  8. 2.4%
    GLM 4.7Similar price
  9. 0.3%
    Mistral Medium 3Similar price

Ahead of 3 of 4 similarly priced models

FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#39 of 46

  1. 6.3%
    GPT-5 MiniSimilar price
  2. 4.2%
  3. 0.0%
  4. 0.0%
    Claude Sonnet 4Nearby rank
  5. 0.0%
    Kimi K2 Thinking
  6. 0.0%
    GPT-4.1Nearby rank
  7. 0.0%
  8. 0.0%
    GLM 4.7Similar price

Ahead of 0 of 4 similarly priced models

Terminal Bench

Best score per model · Higher is better

#32 of 49

  1. 64.3%
  2. 61.6%
    GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniSimilar price
  3. 57.3%
    Grok 4.20Similar price
  4. 38.0%
    Claude Opus 4.1Nearby rank
  5. 36.6%
    MiniMax-M2.1Nearby rank
  6. 35.7%
    Kimi K2 Thinking
  7. 35.5%
    Claude Haiku 4.5Nearby rank
  8. 34.8%
    GPT-5 MiniNearby rank
  9. 33.4%
    GLM 4.7Similar price

Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

Not evaluated in DeepSWE 1.1 as of 2026-09-22. Results are only shown for exact model versions in the official dataset. Official leaderboard.

All published scores

Benchmark compilation: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (CC BY attribution). Scores are converted to percentages and model names matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog. Individual evaluations are credited to their original sources. External results may carry separate licences and evaluation configurations; do not interpret scores from different harnesses as directly comparable.

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