Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
LLMfamily

Kimi

LLM from Moonshot AI.

Moonshot AI
Levelfamily
ClassLLM
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Releasednot in the notes
Opennessunknown
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reportedindependent
Arena Text leaderboardhuman preference arena
Kimi K3kimi-k3-max; top open modelindependent
1,488 ±5
rank 16, Arena Text overall8 Oct 2026 arena.ai
Kimi K2.6independent
1,461 ±4
1,2001,4001,600

Score in Elo; the axis starts at 1,200, as Elo has no zero. Higher is better.

Arena Text overall8 Oct 2026 arena.ai
Kimi K3Kimi K3 (Max)independent
44
rank 3, Artificial Analysis open-weights viewartificialanalysis.ai, artificialanalysis.ai
Kimi K3maxindependent
44
03060

Score in index. Higher is better.

rank 31 of 205, AA leaderboard, 205 current models10 Oct 2026 artificialanalysis.ai
BrowseCompagents and tool use
Kimi K3vendor-reported
91.2
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Kimi K3Kimi Code harness; 67.3 with mini-SWE-agentvendor-reported
67.5
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Kimi K3Kimi Code harnessvendor-reported
81.2
04590

Score. Higher is better.

GPQA Diamondknowledge and reasoning
Kimi K3vendor-reported
93.5
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)knowledge and reasoning
Kimi K3with toolsvendor-reported
56
Kimi K3without toolsvendor-reported
43.5
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Kimi K2.7 Codevendor-reported
62
04590

Score. Higher is better.

OSWorld-Verifiedagents and tool use
Kimi K3vendor-reported
84.8
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Kimi K3Kimi Code harnessvendor-reported
77.8
Kimi K2.7 CodeKimi Code CLI, thinkingvendor-reported
53.6
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Kimi K2.5vendor-reported
76.8
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Kimi K3Claude Code harnessvendor-reported
42
04590

Score. Higher is better.

Terminal-Bench 2.1agents and tool use
Kimi K3vendor-reported
88.3
Kimi K3Kimi Code harnessvendor-reported
88.3
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

Moonshot AIKimi K3 belongs to this familymultimodal LLM16 Jul 20262.8T
Moonshot AIKimi K2.7 Code belongs to this familycodeJun 20261T
Moonshot AIKimi K2.6 belongs to this familyLLMApr 20261T
Moonshot AIKimi K2.5 belongs to this familymultimodal LLMJan 20261T
Moonshot AIKimi K2 belongs to this familyLLMJul 20251T
Moonshot AIKimi K2 Thinking belongs to this familyreasoning
Moonshot AIKimi K2-0905 belongs to this familyLLM
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Moonshot AI
Family
not in the notes
Released
– sources
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
not in the notes
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
not in the notes
Output
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
unknown
Licence
not in the notes sources
Access routes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Kimi (AI) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimi_(chatbot)
  2. huggingface.co/moonshotai https://huggingface.co/moonshotai

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Kimi", https://aurion.semai.id/models/moonshot-ai-kimi/, records of October 2026.