Kimi K2.6 scores 34.4 on the Respan Index (#55), ahead of Kimi K2.7 Code at 34.1 (#58). Kimi K2.6 leads on 13 of the 23 benchmarks both report. Both cost about the same per token at list price.
* Estimated: no published scores in that category. How the Respan Index works
| 46.9% |
| 45.7% |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 78.6% | 74% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 65.1% | 62.7% |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 64.4% | 56.3% |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 75.1% | 77.9% |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 84.3% | 79.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 79.4% | 82.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI) | 96.1% | 95.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.9% | 36.5% |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 6204.57 | 5082.94 |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | 55.9% | 54.1% |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1509 | 1473 |
| Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST) | 58% | 58% |
| Kimi Claw 24/7 Bench | 42.9% | 46.9% |
| Kimi Code Bench v2 | 50.9% | 62% |
| MCP-Atlas | 69.4% | 76% |
| MCPMark-Verified | 72.8% | 81.1% |
| MLS-Bench-Lite | 26.7% | 35.1% |
| ProgramBench | 48.3% | 53.6% |
Higher is better. Each score links to where it was published.