Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Llama 2-13B

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2.5 leads 65.1 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 12% for Kimi K2.5 and 0% for Llama 2-13B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and Llama 2-13B specifications
Kimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index48.129.6
Released2026-01-272023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$2.25—
Results tracked5132

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding14741062
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
SciCode49%—
WeirdML45.6%—
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles12%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14531051
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03106.17
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
CritPt3.1%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
DTBench—42.2%
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Math14701065
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert14661030
GPQA Diamond87.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14331024
LMArena Chinese14951001
LMArena French14541044
LMArena German14411009
LMArena Japanese1421894
LMArena Korean1410953
LMArena Russian14351055
LMArena Spanish14501087

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following14311045

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query14451064
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text14451084
LMArena Creative Writing14231047
LMArena Multi-Turn14441050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Llama 2-13B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.5 or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Llama 2-13B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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