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Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen2-72B

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Winner summary

Kimi K2.5 wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · coding.

Category leads
knowledge·Kimi K2.5coding·Kimi K2.5
Hype vs Reality
Kimi K2.5
#104 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen2-72B
#177 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Kimi K2.5
43.3 pts/$
$1.20/M
Qwen2-72B
no price
Vendor risk
moonshotai logo
moonshotai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Kimi K2.5Qwen2-72B
GPQA diamond
Kimi K2.5 leads by +62.4
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Kimi K2.5
83.5
Qwen2-72B
21.0
WeirdML
Kimi K2.5 leads by +34.3
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Kimi K2.5
45.6
Qwen2-72B
11.3
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen2-72B
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
83.521.0
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
45.611.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
moonshotai logoKimi K2.5$0.38$2.02262K tokens (~131 books)$7.88
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen2-72B