Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 5.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Kimi K2.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.5 leads 51.8 to 15.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 92.2% for Kimi K2.5 and 5.1% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $0.45 / $2.25 for Kimi K2.5.
  • Kimi K2.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
Kimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index48.130.6
Released2026-01-272024-12-06
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K128K
Max output262K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.45$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$2.25$0.32
Results tracked5143

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SciCode49%26%
WeirdML45.6%14.4%
LMArena Coding14741268
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70.8%—
LMArena WebDev1437—
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
ALE-Bench821.65—

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Terminal-Bench43.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
OSWorld63.3%—
BALROG—23%
Vending-Bench 21,198—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SimpleBench46.8%19.9%
CritPt3.1%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14531257
Epoch Capabilities Index148.03127.33
ARC-AGI-211.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.3%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval3.4%—
Thematic Generalization69.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
DTBench—59.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LMCA—17.5%
ForecastBench—58.6
LiveBench—50.2%

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%5.1%
LMArena Math14701267
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions62.3%—
LiveBench Math—42.2%
MATH Level 5—41.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond87.6%47.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%4.1%
LMArena Expert14661225
Humanity's Last Exam24.4%—
SimpleQA Verified34.3%—
Confabulations—22.8%
MMLU—86.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Vision1269—
LMArena Document1430—

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English14331236
LMArena Chinese14951217
LMArena French14541281
LMArena German14411251
LMArena Japanese14211150
LMArena Korean14101143
LMArena Russian14351252
LMArena Spanish14501270

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14311242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%33.3%
LMArena Longer Query14451256
CL-bench19.3%—
CL-bench Life13.2%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text14451274
LMArena Creative Writing14231250
LMArena Multi-Turn14441280
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 5.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Kimi K2.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; Kimi K2.5 lists at $0.45 and $2.25.

Is Kimi K2.5 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K2.5 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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