Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Llama 2-70B

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 leads 53.6 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 92.2% for Kimi K2.5 and 0% for Llama 2-70B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and Llama 2-70B specifications
Kimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index48.124.4
Released2026-01-272023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$2.25—
Results tracked5135

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14741079
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 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
OSWorld63.3%—
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14531073
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03113.79
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
DTBench—41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%0%
LMArena Math14701091
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond87.6%26.3%
LMArena Expert14661039
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14331045
LMArena Chinese1495995
LMArena French14541090
LMArena German14411041
LMArena Japanese1421927
LMArena Korean1410964
LMArena Russian14351083
LMArena Spanish14501143

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14311071

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14451062
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%—
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text14451115
LMArena Creative Writing14231075
LMArena Multi-Turn14441088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Llama 2-70B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.5 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Llama 2-70B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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