Kimi K2.5 vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL leads Kimi K2.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 26.5 to 23.5, and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs 5.7x less per output token ($0.50 vs $2.85 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 8 benchmarks have a result for both.
Kimi K2.5 or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: which to pick
Only Kimi K2.5 has a coding score, 38.6 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nemotron 3.5 Super VL has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for output tokens 5.7x cheaper ($0.50 vs $2.85 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 262K tokens).
- Shared results
- 8
- Kimi K2.5 only
- 99
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL only
- 8
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Kimi K2.5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL leads, 26.5 against 23.5.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Kimi K2.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 84.1%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Kimi K2.5 has a AIME result, 95.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Kimi K2.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 85.9%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Kimi K2.5
Kimi K2.5 leads, 1248 against 1173.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Kimi K2.5 $0.0020, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Kimi K2.5 has the number, $0.24.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Kimi K2.5 38.6 from 3 benchmarks, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Web design, 10.3 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: game dev: Kimi K2.5 1206 against Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 1110, 12.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Kimi K2.5 $2.85 against Nemotron 3.5 Super VL $0.50 per million output tokens, 5.7x apart.
- Context window
- Kimi K2.5 takes 262K tokens, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Kimi K2.5 | Bars | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 0 | 1 tie | |
| Web design | 5 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 6 | 1 | 1 tie |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index23 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 67.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 65.5% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1437 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 46.8 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 83.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 70.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 17.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 7.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 42.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 47.8% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 34.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 43.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| WeirdML | 45.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 821.6 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1483 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1471 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1429 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1426 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1439 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA | 13.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Refactoring | 20.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Test Writing | 25.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 23.5 | 26.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.1 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1136 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1114 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1147 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1118 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1219 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 70.9% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 4.0% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 15.8% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 35.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 15.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 28.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 95.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| OSWorld | 63.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $1,198 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| MCP Atlas | 64.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index00
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 84.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 78.8% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 84.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 30.7% | 30.7% | Tie |
| ARC-AGI | 65.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 11.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| SimpleBench | 46.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1453 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1466 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1460 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1282 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1297 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 78.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 95.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1470 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1473 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| MathArena | 17.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 85.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 58.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 68.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 66.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 94.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 39.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1459 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1448 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1441 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1427 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| PRBench Finance | 46.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| PRBench Legal | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1248 | 1173 | Kimi K2.5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1234 | 1149 | Kimi K2.5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1206 | 1110 | Kimi K2.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1219 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1204 | 1128 | Kimi K2.5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1236 | 1154 | Kimi K2.5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1148 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1165 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 60.7% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 64.6% | Only Nemotron 3.5 Super VL measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 49.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 76.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| IFBench | 70.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 78.0% | 69.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 86.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| CL-bench | 19.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| CL-bench Life | 13.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1445 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1431 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1422 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1269 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1453 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1433 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1494 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1441 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1423 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1412 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1454 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1450 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1435 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1445 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1444 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1445 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1425 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1417 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1274 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1328 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1276 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1284 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1257 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1285 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1269 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| MultiChallenge | 61.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | NVIDIA |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | January 27, 2026 | October 15, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.532 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.85 | $0.50 |
| Coding index | 38.6 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.24 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Kimi K2.5 better than Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for coding?
Only Kimi K2.5 has a coding score, 38.6 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nemotron 3.5 Super VL has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for output tokens 5.7x cheaper ($0.50 vs $2.85 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 262K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?
Kimi K2.5 costs $0.532 per million input tokens and $2.85 per million output tokens; Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs $0.15 and $0.50. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K2.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2.5 or Nemotron 3.5 Super VL?
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2.5 vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL comparison based on?
8 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Kimi K2.5's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.