Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 vs OpenAI o1 — side-by-side specs.
Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 | OpenAI o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | OpenAI |
| Release date | Jan 27 2026 | Dec 5 2024 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 1T | — |
Context window | 256k | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
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% | — |
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% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | o1 shipped 418 days before Kimi K2.5 | |
Kimi K2.5 and o1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. o1 shipped 418 days before Kimi K2.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi K2.5 is an open-source / open-weight model; o1 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Kimi K2.5 and o1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.