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Kimi K2.5
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RANKED #35 OF 318 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #51 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.5 · 1,462 VOICES ·
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Kimi K2.5 is Moonshot AI's native multimodal model, delivering state-of-the-art visual coding capability and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Built on Kimi K2 with continued pretraining over approximately 15T mixed...
HAPPY9.1
123 mentions
SAD5.9
54 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,207 voices in this window
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
FROM THE MODEL CARD
Official published numbers, not a street-price estimate.
- PARAMETERS
- 1T total / 32B active
- CONTEXT
- 256K
- WEIGHTS
- native INT4, ~595 GB
- DEPLOY
- 1 node of 8x H200 (TP8) via vLLM/SGLang; KTransformers for CPU+GPU hybrid
- LICENSE
- Modified MIT
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Kimi K2.5 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
- BARE MINIMUM
Custom PC with 1x NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB and 256GB DDR5 RAM
24 GB VRAM PLUS 256 GB RAM
~$1900 USEDUD-TQ1_0 1.8-bit quant, ~10 tok/s via heavy MoE offload to system RAM, 8k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN KIMI K2.5?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Kimi K2.5 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMCustom PC with 1x NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB and 256GB DDR5 RAM |
|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~50 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~2.5 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~13 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~42 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~25 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
The internet is split on Kimi K2.5. Biggest praise: help with code. Biggest gripe: saying no too much.
1321 POSTS · 141 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · REDDIT · GITHUB · X · DEV.TO · LEMMY · BLOG · BLUESKY · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (17 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (6 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (9 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (7 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (6 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
17 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
6 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 9 thumbs down
- PricePEOPLE LOVE THIS
6 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
- SpeedMOSTLY POSITIVE
4 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM BLOG >
“MiniMax M2.5: A Strong Coder with “Only” 230B Parameters The aforementioned GLM-5 and Kimi K2.5 are popular open-weight models, but according to OpenRouter statistics , they pale in comparison to MiniMax M2.5 , which was released on February 12 as well.”
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- REDDIT · 2026-01-27 · 812 UPVOTESOpen source Kimi-K2.5 is now beating Claude Opus 4.5 in many benchmarks including coding.
Open source Kimi-K2.5 is now beating Claude Opus 4.5 in many benchmarks including coding.
- REDDIT · 2026-01-27 · 809 UPVOTESKimi K2.5 Released!!!
Kimi K2.5 Released!!!
- REDDIT · 2026-03-20 · 636 UPVOTESCursor’s ‘Composer 2’ model is apparently just Kimi K2.5 with RL fine-tuning. Moonshot AI says they never paid or got permission
Cursor’s ‘Composer 2’ model is apparently just Kimi K2.5 with RL fine-tuning. Moonshot AI says they never paid or got permission
- REDDIT · 2026-06-11 · 616 UPVOTESDifferences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
Differences Between Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 on MineBench
- REDDIT · 2026-03-20 · 528 UPVOTESAha! Caught you!
Aha! Caught you!
- REDDIT · 2026-05-31 · 507 UPVOTESDifferences Between Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8 on MineBench
Differences Between Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8 on MineBench
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-01-27 · 502 UPVOTESKimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-21 · 460 UPVOTESKev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
- REDDIT · 2026-03-20 · 401 UPVOTEScomposer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL?????
composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL?????
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-01-30 · 388 UPVOTESKimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
- REDDIT · 2026-02-15 · 369 UPVOTESDeepSeek-v4 Benchmarks Leaked
DeepSeek-v4 Benchmarks Leaked