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Kimi K2.5 vs MiMo-V2.5

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 20 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI · profile
MiMo-V2.5
Xiaomi · profile
Results compared
20
Shared sources
3

Kimi K2.5 or MiMo-V2.5? The short answer

  • MiMo-V2.5 is cheaper: $0.21 against $1.14 per million tokens, 5.4 times less.
  • MiMo-V2.5 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 25.2 against 23.5.
  • On our business benchmarks, Kimi K2.5 ranks higher for agents and tool use, reasoning and knowledge and writing.
  • On our business benchmarks, MiMo-V2.5 ranks higher for sticking to the facts.

At a glance

Kimi K2.5MiMo-V2.5
Price per million tokens$0.57 in · $2.85 out$0.17 in · $0.34 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$1.14$0.21
Cheapest host, blended$0.90 (SiliconFlow, INT4)$0.15 (GMICloud, FP8)
Intelligence Index23.525.2
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window262,144 tokens1,050,000 tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Developer based inChinaChina

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among models available today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. The better rank is in green.

Use caseKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.5
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 85 of 161 95 of 161
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 65 of 195 74 of 195
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 46 of 187 60 of 187
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 106 of 153 83 of 153

Every shared result

BenchmarkMetricKimi K2.5MiMo-V2.5
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4451,439
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4411,441
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,4231,394
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,4831,470
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4391,430
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4501,434
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4281,412
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score 46.856.8
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 23.525.2
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 87.9%84.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 30.7%27.2%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 70.2%67.1%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 78.0%73.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks 45.7%63.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 34.8%41.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ-bench banking% of tasks 14.2%8.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 95.9%90.6%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 10.0%16.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.340.40
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 62.456.4

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.

Quick answers

Is Kimi K2.5 better than MiMo-V2.5?

It depends on the task. Among models available today, on our benchmarks and licensed sources, Kimi K2.5 ranks higher for agents and tool use, reasoning and knowledge and writing; MiMo-V2.5 ranks higher for sticking to the facts.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 or MiMo-V2.5?

MiMo-V2.5 costs $0.21 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $1.14 for Kimi K2.5.

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