Model comparison

Kimi K2.6 vs Llama 3-70B

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.6 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.6 leads 57.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 96.1% for Kimi K2.6 and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.6 and Llama 3-70B specifications
Kimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index47.728.8
Released2026-04-202024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.95—
Output $ / M tokens$4—
Results tracked5131

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14881206
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
LMArena WebDev1509—
SciCode53.5%—
WeirdML55.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench1,093—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
OSWorld 2.04.6%—
Cybench—5%
ExploitBench18.4%—
GBAEval0.9%—
GDP.pdf12%—
Vending-Bench 26,205—

Reasoning Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14701195
DTBench90.9%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.05122.93
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
NYT Connections (extended)87.2%—
CritPt8%—
Chess Puzzles26%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles18%—
LMCA37.3%—
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Knowledge Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond90.8%40.6%
LMArena Expert14911149
SimpleQA Verified34.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.8%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 23.9%—
Furniture Assembly21.7%—
LMArena Document1451—

Multilingual Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14461142
LMArena Chinese15211114
LMArena French14711232
LMArena German14501169
LMArena Japanese14431017
LMArena Korean14271017
LMArena Russian14461159
LMArena Spanish14641241

Instruction Following Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14511194

Long Context Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14681174

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text14551221
LMArena Creative Writing14341210
LMArena Multi-Turn14531223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1725—
EQ-Bench 41202—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.6 better than Llama 3-70B?

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.6 or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.6 and Llama 3-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.6 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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