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VERIFIEDOct 132026
Is Kimi K2 5 state of the art?
Yes.Yes on Reasoning (best per dollar); Math (best per dollar). Not the overall leader.

As of Oct 13, 2026, Kimi K2 5 from Moonshot AI. Yes on Reasoning (best per dollar); Math (best per dollar). Not the overall leader. Ranked #9 in Long context.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 13, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium
ReasoningNot SOTA · #25#25 · 0dReasoning · open-weightsCo-SOTA#1 · 5dReasoning · paretoPareto#25 · 0dMathNot SOTA · #15#15 · 0dMath · paretoPareto#15 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #17#17 · 0dCoding › AgenticNot SOTA · #21#21 · 0dLong contextNot SOTA · #9#9 · 0dLong context · paretoPareto#9 · 0dFactualityNot SOTA · #53#53 · 0d
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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Ranked #25 in Reasoning.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
Humanity's Last Exam
kimi-k2.5
0.24370000000000003 0.2–0.32026-01-27INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
SWE-bench Verified
kimi-k2.5
0.737603305785124 0.7–0.82026-01-27INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
Terminal-Bench 2.0
kimi-k2.5
0.43202247191 0.4–0.52026-01-27INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
Fiction.liveBench 120k
kimi-k2.5
0.7812026-01-27INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
SimpleQA Verified
kimi-k2.5
0.343 0.3–0.42026-01-27INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
ARC-AGI
kimi-k2.5
0.65332026-01-27INDEP.snap_f9d8103e52c2
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
ReasoningNot SOTA · #25Ranked #25 in Reasoning.
MathNot SOTA · #15Ranked #15 in Math.
CodingNot SOTA · #17Last listed at #17 in Coding on 2026-01-27.
Coding › AgenticNot SOTA · #21Last listed at #21 in Coding › Agentic on 2026-01-27.
Long contextNot SOTA · #9Ranked #9 in Long context.
FactualityNot SOTA · #53Last listed at #53 in Factuality on 2026-01-27.
Abstraction (ARC)Not SOTA · #46Last listed at #46 in Abstraction (ARC) on 2026-01-27. That board does not award a crown.