Model comparison
Kimi K2.6 vs phi-3-medium 14B
Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.6 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.6 leads 54.0 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.8% for Kimi K2.6 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
Side by side
| Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 47.7 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2026-04-20 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.95 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4 | — |
| Results tracked | 51 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1509 | — |
| SciCode | 53.5% | — |
| WeirdML | 55.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1488 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,093 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld 2.0 | 4.6% | — |
| ExploitBench | 18.4% | — |
| GBAEval | 0.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 12% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,205 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 151.05 | 121.23 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 87.2% | — |
| CritPt | 8% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 26% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 2.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1470 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 18% | — |
| DTBench | 90.9% | — |
| LMCA | 37.3% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 57.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 25.6% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 72.9% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 96.1% | — |
| ProofBench | 16% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1475 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |
Knowledge Kimi K2.6 leads
Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.8% | 27.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1491 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1283 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 3.9% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 21.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1451 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1521 | — |
| LMArena French | 1471 | — |
| LMArena German | 1450 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1443 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1464 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1451 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1468 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1455 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1434 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1725 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1202 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1453 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2.6 better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Kimi K2.6 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.6 and phi-3-medium 14B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.6 has 51 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.