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Qwen2-72B vs Kimi K2.5

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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
Qwen2-72B
#177 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Kimi K2.5
#104 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Qwen2-72B
no price
Kimi K2.5
43.3 pts/$
$1.20/M
Vendor risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
moonshotai logo
moonshotai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
Qwen2-72BKimi K2.5
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.
Qwen2-72B
21.0
Kimi K2.5
83.5
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.
Qwen2-72B
11.3
Kimi K2.5
45.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkQwen2-72BKimi K2.5
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
21.083.5
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
11.345.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen2-72B
moonshotai logoKimi K2.5$0.38$2.02262K tokens (~131 books)$7.88