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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Kimi K2 5 Instant state of the art?
No.Best current rank is #48 in Coding.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K2 5 Instant from Moonshot AI. Best current rank is #48 in Coding. Ranked #48 in Coding.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low
General LLMNot SOTA · #79#79 · 0dReasoningNot SOTA · #72#72 · 0dMathNot SOTA · #63#63 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #48#48 · 0dCoding › Web devNot SOTA · #69#69 · 0dLong contextNot SOTA · #78#78 · 0dVisionNot SOTA · #52#52 · 0dFactualityNot SOTA · #85#85 · 0d
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Why

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Ranked #79 in General LLM.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
kimi-k2.5-instant
1430.378427137835 1423.9–1436.92026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
kimi-k2.5-instant
1459.876190045101 1451.4–1468.32026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, math)
kimi-k2.5-instant
1440.9850701292057 1417.0–1464.92026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding)
kimi-k2.5-instant
1503.8220451259497 1490.3–1517.42026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena WebDev
kimi-k2.5-instant
1404.1961718170105 1392.2–1416.22026-10-08INDEP.snap_6949d6fb2488
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query)
kimi-k2.5-instant
1442.9583520147519 1431.1–1454.82026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Vision (style-controlled)
kimi-k2.5-instant
1236.430087252433 1225.7–1247.22026-10-09INDEP.snap_44d0155ee751
LMArena Text factuality
kimi-k2.5-instant
1428.9370759123553 1422.9–1435.02026-10-08INDEP.snap_f051faf18005
Reign history

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Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMNot SOTA · #79Ranked #79 in General LLM.
ReasoningNot SOTA · #72Ranked #72 in Reasoning.
MathNot SOTA · #63Ranked #63 in Math.
CodingNot SOTA · #48Ranked #48 in Coding.
Coding › Web devNot SOTA · #69Ranked #69 in Coding › Web dev.
Long contextNot SOTA · #78Ranked #78 in Long context.
VisionNot SOTA · #52Ranked #52 in Vision.
FactualityNot SOTA · #85Ranked #85 in Factuality.