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Kimi K1.5 7B on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Kimi K1.5 7B scores 72.4 on IFEval, placing it #427 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
72.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#427
of 600
Percentile
29th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
23.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Kimi K1.5 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Kimi K1.5 7B sits at #427 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 23.7 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Kimi K1.5 7B below the midpoint.

Moonshot AI models average 80.8 on this benchmark. Kimi K1.5 7B is 8.4 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 64.9. Kimi K1.5 7B is 7.5 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 72.4 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 $1.35 per million input tokens, Kimi K1.5 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 4 Maverick 8B Meta AI 4096 $1.64 63.4
SmolLM3 Chat Hugging Face 16384 $1.61 62.1
GLM-4.5 8B Zhipu AI 32768 $1.46 61.3
Auto Mini OpenRouter 4096 $4.24 61.6
Kimi K1.5 7B Moonshot AI 8192 $1.35 59.9
Pythia Instruct EleutherAI 8192 $1.41 60.8
MiniMax-M2 7B MiniMax 8192 $1.44 60.8

Other benchmarks for Kimi K1.5 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 66.3 437 27th
GPQA Diamond 56.0 449 25th
SWE-bench Verified 45.6 455 24th
HumanEval 62.3 466 22th
MATH-500 59.7 469 22th
AIME 2025 48.0 470 22th
LiveCodeBench 52.3 424 29th
TruthfulQA 65.2 457 24th
HellaSwag 74.3 451 25th
MMMU 57.2 467 22th
Arena Elo 1269.9 459 24th

FAQ

What score does Kimi K1.5 7B get on IFEval?

Kimi K1.5 7B scores 72.4 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Kimi K1.5 7B rank on IFEval?

It ranks #427 of 600 models, in the 29th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Kimi K1.5 7B good at IFEval?

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 IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following 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 7B cost?

Kimi K1.5 7B costs $1.35 per million input tokens and $4.98 per million output tokens.

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