Benchmark Almanac

Kimi K2 Sep 2025

Kimi K2 ranks first on 2 of the 53 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Moonshot AI Released September 5th, 2025 Family Kimi K2 The lab's model card Compare with others
55
Benchmarks with a score
2
Ranked first, out of five or more models
2
In the top three
Moonshot AI Sep 2025

Kimi K2

Sep 2025 snapshot Open weights Flagship

No Epoch Capabilities Index score yet
  • Terminal-Bench 2.0 27.8% #33 /43
  • Toolathlon 13% #48 /50
  • VITA-Bench 11.5% #17 /18

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Slop Score 18.3 #1 of 17 Official leaderboard
Encyclo-K 44.7% #4 of 23 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,418 #106 of 335 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 66.7% #26 of 57 Fiction.live leaderboard, via Epoch AI
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 63.8 #56 of 119 Official leaderboard
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 2711.0 #42 of 77 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 20% #70 of 107 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 6.20% #106 of 148 Official leaderboard
HUMAINE 20 #44 of 50 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 10% #114 of 129 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 32.9% #45 of 49 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 17.9% #96 of 104 Official leaderboard
CL-bench 11.9% #23 of 24 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ChemBench 59.7% #12 of 24 Official leaderboard
SciArena 1,002 #21 of 34 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.14 #53 of 82 Official leaderboard
AMO-Bench 7.50% #18 of 21 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SWE-bench Verified 71.2% #13 of 60 Official leaderboard
SWE-fficiency 5.37% #11 of 17 Official leaderboard
AetherCode 9.80% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,082 #119 of 151 Official leaderboard
Multi-SWE-bench 33.5% #8 of 10 Lab model card
AInsteinBench 29.1% #5 of 6 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,021 #118 of 139 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,024 #122 of 143 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Multilingual 55.9% #64 of 73 Lab model card
DesignArena Game Dev 964 #130 of 143 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Codebase QnA Extended 0% #35 of 38 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 17.4% #63 of 65 Official leaderboard
CC-Bench 14.9% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard
SWE-Dev 66.6% #1 of 1 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SnakeBench 30 #39 of 188 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 44.5% #6 of 22 Lab model card
LLM-WikiRace 7.00% #8 of 21 Official leaderboard
MCP-Universe 26.4% #12 of 30 Official leaderboard
Meta Agents Research Environments (ARE) / Gaia2 20.1% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
MCPMark 21.9% #14 of 28 Official leaderboard
CompileBench 80% #10 of 20 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.0 27.8% #33 of 43 Official leaderboard
VITA-Bench 11.5% #17 of 18 Official leaderboard
SnorkelWordle 54% #18 of 19 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 13% #48 of 50 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 11.1% #43 of 44 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
StockBench 1.00 #1 of 13 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 44.2% #50 of 72 Official leaderboard
PLawBench 57.3% #8 of 11 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 52.4% #65 of 71 Official leaderboard
GDPval Extended 0% #40 of 43 Official leaderboard
MBABench 14.4 #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MineBench 963 #69 of 75 Official leaderboard
CaP-X (CaP-Bench) 5.17% #10 of 10 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Spiral-Bench v1.2 57.2 #7 of 21 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.0 73.0 #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
SusVibes 9.10% #9 of 10 Official leaderboard
Lakera B3 (Backbone Breaker Benchmark) 41.7% #32 of 35 Official leaderboard

Its lab's number next to a leaderboard

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
SWE-bench Verified 69.2% SWE-Bench verified, ACC 71.2% Leaderboard, Lingxi v1.5 −2.0 pts

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.