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Model comparison

Amazon Nova Lite vs Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Amazon Nova Lite Amazon

31.9

Rank #265 Confirmed

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 50.9 to 26.3.
  • Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
ProviderAmazonMoonshot AI
Noometry Index31.945.8
Released2024-12-032025-11-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window300K—
Max output10K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.24—
Results tracked3421

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 32.5 (#270), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Coding12391454
LMArena WebDev—1322
LiveBench Coding27.5%—
ALE-Bench236.25—

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 19.3 (#260), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts12201428
Chess Puzzles—20%
LiveBench Reasoning36.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis37.2%—
LiveBench36.4%—

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 27.8 (#247), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Math12271429
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—83.1%
Omni-MATH23.3%—
LiveBench Math36.7%—

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 26.3 (#259), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Expert12011439
GPQA Diamond—84.2%
Humanity's Last Exam3.6%—
MMLU-Pro60%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)39.7%—
MMLU77%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Amazon Nova Lite: 25.5 (#123), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Vision990—

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 38.0 (#232), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Non-English12081398
LMArena Chinese12251456
LMArena French12371425
LMArena German12291390
LMArena Japanese11531357
LMArena Korean11531330
LMArena Russian12161391
LMArena Spanish12261406

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 59.3 (#255), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following12051403
LiveBench Instruction Following54.1%—
IFEval77.6%—

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 37.4 (#217), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Longer Query12341415

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Amazon Nova Lite: 42.1 (#237), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104)

BenchmarkAmazon Nova LiteKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Text12291415
LMArena Creative Writing11971374
LMArena Multi-Turn11991414
WildBench75%—
LiveBench Language25.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Lite better than Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Lite or Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Lite and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Lite has 34 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21.

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