Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.3 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-07-12 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.57 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.30 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1399 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |
Reasoning Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 146.01 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1397 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1365 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1415 |
| LMArena French | — | 1379 |
| LMArena German | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1385 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1386 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1348 |
| IFEval | — | 85% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1353 |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1350 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.