Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 7b IT vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) Moonshot AI

41.2

Rank #140 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.3 to 30.4.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) specifications
Gemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index31.341.2
Released—2025-07-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.57
Output $ / M tokens—$2.30
Results tracked1942

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Coding10841399
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—63.4%
Aider Polyglot—59.1%
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—42.8%
ALE-Bench—597.5
HumanEval+35.4%—
MBPP+45%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Terminal-Bench—35.7%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—59.1%
METR Time Horizons—59.2%

Reasoning Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Hard Prompts10711384
SimpleBench—26.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—64.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.01
ForecastBench—60.2

Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Math11071397
Omni-MATH—65.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Expert10391365
MMLU-Pro—81.9%
Confabulations—20.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—17.9%
GPQA (HELM)—65.3%

Multilingual Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Non-English10521372
LMArena Chinese10611415
LMArena French10651379
LMArena German10541387
LMArena Japanese9711349
LMArena Korean9881325
LMArena Russian10461385
LMArena Spanish10491386

Instruction Following Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following10571348
IFEval—85%

Long Context Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Longer Query10561353
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—17.6%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Text10941380
LMArena Creative Writing10601350
LMArena Multi-Turn10401371
Short-Story Creative Writing—85.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1666
WildBench—86.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 31.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.

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