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Kimi K2 on MMLU-Pro: score, rank and what it means

Kimi K2 scores 83.3 on MMLU-Pro, placing it #99 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.

Score
83.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#99
of 600
Percentile
84th
within the index
Benchmark avg
73.5
all models
Leader
91.6
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
8.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on MMLU-Pro, with Kimi K2 highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 91.6
GPT-5.1 Max 91.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 91.2
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 90.7
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 90.1
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 90.0
GPT-5.2 89.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 89.5
GPT-5.2 Vision 89.5
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
7 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
9 GPT-5.2 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $19.03 87.4
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On MMLU-Pro, Kimi K2 sits at #99 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 91.6, so the gap to the top is 8.3 points. The median model in this index scores 76.1, which puts Kimi K2 above the midpoint.

Moonshot AI models average 75.0 on this benchmark. Kimi K2 is 8.3 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Moonshot AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 80.0. Kimi K2 is 3.3 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 83.3 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 $5.85 per million input tokens, Kimi K2 is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MMLU-Pro. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Grok 3 Pro xAI 400000 $16.61 83.8
Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 128000 $15.11 81.4
DeepSeek-R1 Chat DeepSeek 400000 $5.62 82.4
Qwen3 Chat Alibaba Cloud 128000 $4.75 79.1
Kimi K2 Moonshot AI 128000 $5.85 83.0
Llama 4 Maverick Base Meta AI 128000 $4.68 79.1
Mistral Large 3 Chat Mistral AI 1000000 $4.90 79.1

Other benchmarks for Kimi K2

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
GPQA Diamond 77.5 97 84th
SWE-bench Verified 70.2 105 83th
HumanEval 87.1 85 86th
MATH-500 85.3 104 83th
AIME 2025 85.1 38 94th
LiveCodeBench 78.5 61 90th
IFEval 91.5 44 93th
TruthfulQA 84.8 67 89th
HellaSwag 92.3 38 94th
MMMU 77.5 107 82th
Arena Elo 1458.5 56 91th

FAQ

What score does Kimi K2 get on MMLU-Pro?

Kimi K2 scores 83.3 on MMLU-Pro in this index. The benchmark average is 73.5 and the top score is 91.6.

How does Kimi K2 rank on MMLU-Pro?

It ranks #99 of 600 models, in the 84th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 91.6.

Is Kimi K2 good at MMLU-Pro?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the MMLU-Pro score calculated?

MMLU-Pro is a knowledge 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 K2 cost?

Kimi K2 costs $5.85 per million input tokens and $21.72 per million output tokens.

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