Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is an open-weight model from Moonshot AI. It ranks #134 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1414.

LMArena text1414−0 in 30 days
Rank#134/351
95% interval1411–1418
Votes63.3K
Developer
Moonshot AI
Released
Nov 16, 2025
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Price in / out, per 1M tokens
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Weights
Open · Modified MIT
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Reasoning
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Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo, LMArena text rating over time
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LatestKimi K2 Thinking Turbo 1414

The rating LMArena published at each update since Nov 16, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1414134 / 35163.3K
CodingLMArena145495 / 34615.3K
MathLMArena1429104 / 3393.9K
Creative writingLMArena1373142 / 3499.5K
Instruction followingLMArena1403123 / 35118.7K
Hard promptsLMArena1428116 / 35137.1K
Multi-turnLMArena1414129 / 34911K
Long queriesLMArena1415120 / 33019.9K
ExpertLMArena1439103 / 3054.7K
Legal and governmentIndustries1416141 / 3254.6K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1417134 / 3254K
Business and financeIndustries1397146 / 34412.1K
ChineseLanguages1456118 / 3284.7K
SpanishLanguages1406136 / 2492K
GermanLanguages1390133 / 2611.1K
FrenchLanguages1426125 / 2521.6K
JapaneseLanguages1359120 / 236570
WebDevLMArena1323128 / 12413.1K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

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Moonshot AI

The lab behind Kimi, known for long-context and agentic open-weight models. Founded 2023, based in Beijing. moonshot.ai

Questions

Who makes Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is made by Moonshot AI, founded 2023 and based in Beijing.

How does Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo rank?

#134 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1414 (95% interval 1411–1418) from 63,348 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo open source?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has open weights under the Modified MIT license.

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