Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 Instant vs Llama 3-70B

Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.6 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Instant Moonshot AI

43.6

Rank #89 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.5 Instant leads 39.4 to 12.8.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 Instant and Llama 3-70B specifications
Kimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index43.628.8
Released—2024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1831

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.6 (#97), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14841206
LMArena WebDev1404—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.5 Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 29.7 (#90), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14431195
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
DTBench—54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.93
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.4 (#105), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Math14421218
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#123), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Expert14401149
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#50), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1254—

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.0 (#94), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14061142
LMArena Chinese14491114
LMArena French14031232
LMArena German14131169
LMArena Korean13781017
LMArena Russian14041159
LMArena Spanish14471241
LMArena Japanese—1017

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.3 (#65), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14301194

Long Context Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.9 (#83), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14351174

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.6 (#95), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text14201221
LMArena Creative Writing13811210
LMArena Multi-Turn14271223

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 Instant better than Llama 3-70B?

Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.6 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.5 Instant or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.6 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 Instant and Llama 3-70B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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