Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 34b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2.6 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2.6 leads 68.5 to 28.2.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Kimi K2.6 specifications
Codellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
ProviderMetaMoonshot AI
Noometry Index30.847.7
Released—2026-04-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.95
Output $ / M tokens—$4
Results tracked1451

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
LMArena Coding10461488
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1509
SciCode—53.5%
WeirdML—55.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
ALE-Bench—1,093
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
ExploitBench—18.4%
GBAEval—0.9%
GDP.pdf—12%
Vending-Bench 2—6,205

Reasoning Kimi K2.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
LMArena Hard Prompts10321470
NYT Connections (extended)—87.2%
CritPt—8%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EBR-Bench—2.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—37.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—151.05

Math Kimi K2.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41)

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond—90.8%
SimpleQA Verified—34.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.8%
LMArena Expert—1491

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
LMArena Vision—1283
Blueprint-Bench 2—3.9%
Furniture Assembly—21.7%
LMArena Document—1451

Multilingual Kimi K2.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
LMArena Non-English10111446
LMArena Chinese9761521
LMArena French—1471
LMArena German—1450
LMArena Japanese—1443
LMArena Korean—1427
LMArena Russian—1446
LMArena Spanish—1464

Instruction Following Kimi K2.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
LMArena Instruction Following10281451

Long Context Kimi K2.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
LMArena Longer Query10131468

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructKimi K2.6
LMArena Text10661455
LMArena Creative Writing10321434
LMArena Multi-Turn10151453
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1725
EQ-Bench 4—1202

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Kimi K2.6 better for coding?

Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Kimi K2.6 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.6 has 51.

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