Model comparison
Kimi K2.5 Instant vs Llama 3-8B
Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.6 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 Instant leads 40.2 to 7.8.
Side by side
| Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 43.6 | 25.5 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 18 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.6 (#97), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1484 | 1152 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1404 | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 31.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 36.9% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |
Reasoning Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 29.7 (#90), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1133 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 43.9% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 116.45 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.7% |
Math Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.4 (#105), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1442 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |
Knowledge Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#123), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1440 | 1113 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 82.8% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 82.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 67.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#50), Llama 3-8B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1254 | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.0 (#94), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1406 | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1449 | 1076 |
| LMArena French | 1403 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1413 | 1104 |
| LMArena Korean | 1378 | 1004 |
| LMArena Russian | 1404 | 1109 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1447 | 1173 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 967 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.3 (#65), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1430 | 1127 |
Long Context Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.9 (#83), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1435 | 1128 |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 Instant leads
Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.6 (#95), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 Instant | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1420 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1381 | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1427 | 1152 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2.5 Instant better than Llama 3-8B?
Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.6 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Kimi K2.5 Instant or Llama 3-8B better for coding?
Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.6 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 Instant and Llama 3-8B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.