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Kimi K2 Thinking

ECI#79
146
Moonshot
Nov. 6, 2025
Open weights

Kimi K2 Thinking is an open-weights model from Moonshot, released November 6, 2025. It has an ECI score of 146 and ranks 79th of 257 tracked models. At the time of its release, it ranked 7th of 169 tracked models.

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ECI scoreBest score 167
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Ranking#79#116#76#70
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n/a
14%
12%
Long context
CL-benchBest score 28%
18%
n/a
12%
n/a
Mathematics
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83%
n/a
88%
78%
Science
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84%
n/a
83%
82%
Software engineering
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54 min 12 sec——2 hr 2 min
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1337—13251391
ALE-BenchBest score 2951
598——796
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36%
28%
40%
47%
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43%
39%
n/a
48%

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