Kimi K2 vs GPT-5
Moonshot AI Kimi K2 | OpenAI GPT-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | OpenAI |
| Release date | Jul 11 2025 | Aug 7 2025 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 1T | — |
Context window | 128k | — |
| 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. | 10% | 21%Best |
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. | 65.8% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 75.1% | — |
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. | — | 1394 |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Kimi K2 shipped 27 days before GPT-5 | |
Which is better: Kimi K2 or GPT-5?
GPT-5 leads Kimi K2 on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). Kimi K2 shipped 27 days before GPT-5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi K2 is open weight, while GPT-5 is proprietary.
On BullshitBench v2, GPT-5 leads at 21% vs Kimi K2 at 10%.
Frequently asked questions
Kimi K2 was released by Moonshot AI on Jul 11 2025.
GPT-5 was released by OpenAI on Aug 7 2025.
Kimi K2 is an open weight model released by Moonshot AI. GPT-5 is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.