Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 60.0 to 29.1.

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Falcon-180B and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo specifications
Falcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMoonshot AI
Noometry Index32.245.8
Released2023-09-062025-11-06
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1621

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena WebDev—1322
LMArena Coding—1454

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts10071428
Chess Puzzles—20%
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—83.1%
LMArena Math—1429
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
GPQA Diamond—84.2%
LMArena Expert—1439
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Non-English10001398
LMArena Chinese—1456
LMArena French—1425
LMArena German—1390
LMArena Japanese—1357
LMArena Korean—1330
LMArena Russian—1391
LMArena Spanish—1406

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following10471403

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Longer Query—1415

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BKimi K2 Thinking Turbo
LMArena Text10541415
LMArena Creative Writing10891374
LMArena Multi-Turn10131414

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21.

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