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Kimi K2.6 vs GPT-5 Mini

23 results from 5 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI · profile
GPT-5 Mini
OpenAI · profile
Results compared
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Shared sources
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BenchmarkMetricKimi K2.6GPT-5 Mini
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4561,394
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4551,381
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,4331,324
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5031,400
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4561,373
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4611,390
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4411,352
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score 61.815.6
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 27.020.6
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 91.1%82.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 37.5%21.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 76.0%75.4%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 81.0%72.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedSciCode% of problems 51.5%39.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks 65.9%3.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks 0.5%0.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 43.9%33.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ-bench banking% of tasks 23.3%15.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 95.9%71.1%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 34.9%21.6%
Vectara Hallucination LeaderboardreportedAnswer rate% of documents 99.7%99.9%
Vectara Hallucination LeaderboardreportedHallucination rate% of summaries 10.8%12.9%
Vending-Bench 2reportedMoney after a yearUS dollars $6,204.57$-31.18

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.