Differences Between Kimi K2.5 and Kimi K2.6 on MineBench

Some Notes: The one caveat though is that I find Kimi's results to be quite inconsistent; the model clearly has a very high ceiling, but you'll see that some of it's builds (in my opinion) lack in quality compared to the others (though they're all a massive improvement from Kimi K2.5) Total cost was $2.35 Think this is by far the most cost effective model for it's performance If you enjoy these posts please feel free to help fund the benchmark Benchmark: Git Repository: Previous Posts: Comparing Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 Comparing GPT 5.4 and GPT 5.4-Pro Comparing GPT 5.2 and GPT 5.4 Comparing.