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Kimi K2.5 vs o3-mini-high

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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.5
OpenAI
o3-mini-high
Overview
CompanyMoonshot AIOpenAI
Release dateJan 27 2026Jan 31 2025
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
1T
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
87.6%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
76.8%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapo3-mini-high shipped 361 days before Kimi K2.5

Which is better: Kimi K2.5 or o3-mini-high?

Kimi K2.5 leads o3-mini-high on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). o3-mini-high shipped 361 days before Kimi K2.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi K2.5 is an open-source / open-weight model; o3-mini-high is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Kimi K2.5 released?
Kimi K2.5 was released by Moonshot AI on Jan 27 2026.
When was o3-mini-high released?
o3-mini-high was released by OpenAI on Jan 31 2025.
Is Kimi K2.5 or o3-mini-high open source?
Kimi K2.5 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. o3-mini-high is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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