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Kimi K2.5 vs Muse Spark Open

Muse Spark Open: 69.4% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#25 of 65 models). We have not run Kimi K2.5 through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.

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Kimi K2.5 vs Muse Spark Open Comparison Table

Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 4, 2026

PropertyKimi K2.5Muse Spark Open
OrganizationMoonshot AIMeta
Categoryopenopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJan 2026Oct 2026
Context Window256K1.0M
Parameters1T816B total / 42B active
LicenseModified MITCustom
Commercial useSee license termsSee license terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.500$1.25
Output $/1M$2.50$4.25
Vision Tasks
ClassificationSupportedDemo
Object DetectionNot listedDemo
Both support 8 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallNot evaluated
69.4%
Avg cost / sample–$0.0059
Avg speed / sample–7.37s
By task
Object Detection (low)–
57.8%
±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 57.0 to 58.2
$0.0073
Object Detection (high)–
60.9%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 60.3 to 61.9
$0.013
Counting (low)–
75.7%
±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 73.0 to 78.4
$0.0036
Counting (high)–
75.2%
±4.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 79.7
$0.0073
Identification (low)–
82.3%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.3 to 84.4
$0.0027
Identification (high)–
80.2%
±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 84.4
$0.0056
OCR (low)–
67.6%
$0.0061
by category
Single value
60.0%
Transcription
89.0%
Structured JSON
85.5%
Text localization
29.5%
OCR (high)–
68.6%
$0.014
by category
Single value
58.3%
Transcription
91.4%
Structured JSON
88.2%
Text localization
32.2%
Reasoning (low)–
63.8%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.9 to 64.9
$0.0049
Reasoning (high)–
65.1%
±3.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.3 to 68.2
$0.012

Kimi K2.5 vs Muse Spark Open: Overview

Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is a frontier-scale multimodal AI model developed by Moonshot AI and released on January 27, 2026. As a significant advancement within the Kimi K2 family, it utilizes a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 1 trillion total parameters (32 billion active per inference) and a massive 256K-token context window. The model features native multimodal integration via a 400M-parameter MoonViT encoder, allowing it to process text, images, and video frames simultaneously. Built for both speed and depth, it offers "Instant" and "Thinking" modes, the latter of which excels at expert-level reasoning, scoring 50.2% on the Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE) benchmark when equipped with tools.

The model is released under a Modified MIT License, which remains open-weight but requires attribution for high-revenue commercial entities. It introduces an "Agent Swarm" paradigm capable of coordinating up to 100 specialized sub-agents for parallel workflows, significantly reducing latency in complex research tasks. For vision tasks, Kimi K2.5 demonstrates strong autonomous visual debugging capabilities, where it can inspect its own generated UI outputs against visual specifications to iteratively refine frontend code. This makes it a powerful choice for developers testing automated UI reconstruction, high-fidelity OCR document processing, and multi-step agentic research grounded in complex visual data.

Muse Spark Open

Muse Spark Open is an open-weight multimodal model released by Meta on October 15, 2026. Its sparse mixture-of-experts architecture has 816 billion total parameters and activates 42 billion per token. It accepts text, images, audio and video, produces text, and supports a context window of 1,048,576 tokens. Meta provides BF16 and NVFP4 checkpoints for self-hosting, alongside access through hosted inference partners.

The model is designed for coding, tool use and multi-step reasoning over long tasks. Its visual inputs support workflows involving screenshots, documents and other image content. Vision Evals measures its text understanding, counting, identification, reasoning and object detection at Low and High effort. The published weights use the custom Muse Model License, with commercial use subject to its terms and the accompanying usage policy.