Kimi K2.5 Thinking
Kimi K2.5 with thinking mode enabled. Built on Kimi K2 with ~15T mixed visual and text tokens, it excels at general reasoning, visual coding, and agentic tool-calling. Produces reasoning traces for complex multi-step workflows.
- Reasoning
- Vision
- Tool Calling
- Parallel Tool Calls
Added Jan 26, 2026
Model weightsPricing
Auto routing · per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.626
- Output
- $3.22
- Cache read
- $0.105
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Parameters
- 1T / 32B
- Total / active
Benchmarks
Benchmarks
Sourced from LMArena.
Arena Score
1449.5
Overall Rank
#81 / 421
Votes
73,872
Confidence Interval
1446.2 - 1452.8
Category Scores
Coding
#77 / 416
20,552 votes
1502.1
Math
#54 / 404
4,120 votes
1469.8
Longer Query
#80 / 399
29,372 votes
1457.5
Creative Writing
#82 / 419
12,080 votes
1422.0
Instruction Following
#81 / 421
23,900 votes
1439.0
Hard Prompts
#85 / 421
47,318 votes
1471.2
Additional Categories22
Industry Mathematical
#53 / 401
3,965 votes
1476.0
Japanese
#70 / 288
834 votes
1423.4
Chinese
#72 / 395
4,503 votes
1494.4
Expert
#72 / 371
6,876 votes
1482.4
Korean
#73 / 289
1,298 votes
1411.2
German
#78 / 320
1,287 votes
1449.4
Industry Software And It Services
#78 / 421
29,429 votes
1489.4
Hard Prompts English
#79 / 419
20,838 votes
1479.1
Spanish
#80 / 303
2,501 votes
1446.2
English
#82 / 421
31,437 votes
1460.8
Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media
#82 / 419
15,269 votes
1420.3
Exclude Ties
#83 / 421
53,795 votes
1450.2
Industry Life And Physical And Social Science
#83 / 419
11,636 votes
1470.0
Industry Medicine And Healthcare
#83 / 390
5,087 votes
1466.8
Non English
#84 / 421
42,432 votes
1434.8
Polish
#86 / 244
1,520 votes
1446.6
Multi Turn
#87 / 419
13,038 votes
1452.1
Industry Writing And Literature And Language
#88 / 420
17,671 votes
1426.3
Russian
#89 / 385
8,718 votes
1442.5
French
#93 / 301
2,595 votes
1463.9
Industry Legal And Government
#105 / 393
5,576 votes
1446.3
Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations
#108 / 414
14,258 votes
1440.0
Published 2026-11-09 · Matched as Kimi K2.5 (Thinking) · CC BY 4.0
LMArena DatasetLeaderboard results
These leaderboards tested Kimi K2.5, another version of this model.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank on NanoGPT |
|---|---|---|
Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub Epoch AI data, CC BY 4.0 · Updated Nov 13, 2026 | ||
Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.8 | #67 of 115 |
SWE-bench Verified | 73.8% | #16 of 28 |
SimpleQA Verified | 34.3% | #57 of 82 |
Creative Writing v3 | 1579 | #48 of 96 |
Longform Writing | 74.9 | #28 of 97 |
EQ-Bench 3 | 1530 | #14 of 49 |
UGI Leaderboard UGI Leaderboard data, Apache-2.0 · Updated Oct 16, 2026 | ||
UGI Score | 55.2 | #22 of 149 |
UGI Willingness | 2.5 | #95 of 149 |
UGI Writing | 62.4 | #31 of 149 |
Filtered and ranked to models on NanoGPT.
Providers
Choose or restrict providers with the API. Provider-selection prices include the selection markup. Provider selection guide · Pricing API (JSON, USD per 1K tokens)
| $0.626 | $3.22 | $0.105 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.626 | $3.22 | $0.105 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.472 | $2.36 | $0.0735 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.514 | $2.63 | $0.21 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.525 | $2.63 | $0.157 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.559 | $3.49 | $0.219 | N/A | N/A | |
| $0.63 | $3.15 | $0.105 | N/A | N/A |
Batch rows for this model use normal routing and cost the same as standard API requests. Set provider in a row to choose a provider.