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Kimi K1.5 1.5B on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

Kimi K1.5 1.5B scores 38.6 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #533 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
38.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#533
of 600
Percentile
11th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
43.1
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with Kimi K1.5 1.5B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 81.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 81.1
GPT-5.2 Max 80.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 80.2
GPT-5.2 80.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 80.1
o4 Max 79.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 79.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 79.5
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 79.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
3 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On SWE-bench Verified, Kimi K1.5 1.5B sits at #533 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 43.1 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Kimi K1.5 1.5B below the midpoint.

Moonshot AI models average 59.4 on this benchmark. Kimi K1.5 1.5B is 20.8 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Moonshot AI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 39.0. Kimi K1.5 1.5B is 0.4 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 38.6 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $0.75 per million input tokens, Kimi K1.5 1.5B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Gemma 3 7B Google DeepMind 32768 $0.90 55.9
Phi-3.5 8B Microsoft 16384 $0.59 51.2
Llama 3 DeepInfra 7B DeepInfra 16384 $0.95 55.6
Mixtral 7B Mistral AI 16384 $0.70 54.1
Kimi K1.5 1.5B Moonshot AI 4096 $0.75 53.2
Mixtral Groq 8B Groq 32768 $0.77 54.8
GLM-4.5 1.5B Zhipu AI 16384 $0.65 53.3

Other benchmarks for Kimi K1.5 1.5B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 61.5 508 15th
GPQA Diamond 47.1 547 9th
HumanEval 55.2 541 10th
MATH-500 53.4 532 11th
AIME 2025 41.8 531 12th
LiveCodeBench 41.3 531 12th
IFEval 66.0 518 14th
TruthfulQA 57.6 549 9th
HellaSwag 70.6 528 12th
MMMU 52.0 531 12th
Arena Elo 1225.8 531 12th

FAQ

What score does Kimi K1.5 1.5B get on SWE-bench Verified?

Kimi K1.5 1.5B scores 38.6 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does Kimi K1.5 1.5B rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #533 of 600 models, in the 11th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is Kimi K1.5 1.5B good at SWE-bench Verified?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the SWE-bench Verified score calculated?

SWE-bench Verified is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Kimi K1.5 1.5B cost?

Kimi K1.5 1.5B costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.70 per million output tokens.

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