Updated daily at 05:00 UTC
- Released
- 11 Jul 2025
- Status
- Legacy
- Context
- 262.1K
- Max output
- —
- Input per 1M tokens
- —
- Output per 1M tokens
- —
- Open weights
- Yes
- License
- modified-mit
- Parameters
- 1000B, 32B active
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Reasoning
- No
- Modalities
- text → text
Category scores
Out of 100, from independent and third-party results only, by method category-2026-09-29.1.
| Category | Score | Rank | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding & software engineering | 59.1 | Not ranked | 1 of 5 |
| Human preference | 52.7 | Not ranked | 1 of 5 |
Benchmark results
Every result we hold for this model, with who ran it and where it was published.
Coding & software engineering
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | Percent correct | 59.1% | Third party | — | — | https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ via Epoch AI |
| WeirdML (v2) | Average accuracy | 39.4% | Third party | — | — | WeirdML Leaderboard via Epoch AI |
| WeirdML (v2) | Average accuracy | 36.7% | Third party | — | — | https://htihle.github.io/weirdml.html via Epoch AI |
Long context
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | % correct at 16K tokens (Epoch's column) | 66.7% | Third party | — | — | Fiction.live leaderboard via Epoch AI |
Human preference
| Benchmark | Metric | Value | Provenance | Setting | Evaluated | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1419 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Arena score (Elo scale) | 1418 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 26960 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
| Text Arena (arena.ai) | Votes | 11537 | Independent | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Arena |
Other Kimi K versions
- Kimi K316 Jul 2026
- Kimi K2.7 Code12 Jun 2026
- Kimi K2.620 Apr 2026
- Kimi K2.527 Jan 2026
- Kimi K2 Thinking6 Nov 2025
- Kimi Thinking PreviewMay 2025
- kimi-latestFeb 2025