Kimi K2.5 vs GPT-4o mini
Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 | OpenAI GPT-4o mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | OpenAI |
| Release date | Jan 27 2026 | Jul 18 2024 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 1T | — |
Context window | 256k | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 52%Best | 2% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 76.8% | — |
Agentic coding CursorBench v3.1Cursor's own test of harder, real-world coding tasks inside a code editor. Higher is better. | 31.9% | — |
Next.js coding Next.js EvalsVercel's open eval of how well AI coding agents build and migrate real Next.js apps — measured as the share of tasks the agent completes successfully. Higher is better. | 21% | — |
Competitive coding LiveCodeBenchCoding problems published so recently the AI can't have seen them in training — a contamination-free test of raw programming skill. Higher is better. | 85% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 87.6% | — |
Community preference (code) Arena Elo (Code)Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | 1433 | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | GPT-4o mini shipped 558 days before Kimi K2.5 | |
Which is better: Kimi K2.5 or GPT-4o mini?
Kimi K2.5 leads GPT-4o mini on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). GPT-4o mini shipped 558 days before Kimi K2.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi K2.5 is open weight, while GPT-4o mini is proprietary.
On BullshitBench v2, Kimi K2.5 leads at 52% vs GPT-4o mini at 2%.
Frequently asked questions
Kimi K2.5 was released by Moonshot AI on Jan 27 2026.
GPT-4o mini was released by OpenAI on Jul 18 2024.
Kimi K2.5 is an open weight model released by Moonshot AI. GPT-4o mini is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.
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