Model comparison

Kimi K2.7 Code vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Kimi K2.7 Code's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI

43.3

Rank #94 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher in 4 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.7 Code leads 52.9 to 15.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Kimi K2.7 Code 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 $0.95 / $4 for Kimi K2.7 Code.
  • Kimi K2.7 Code accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Kimi K2.7 Code and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
Kimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index43.330.6
Released2026-06-122024-12-06
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K128K
Max output262K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.95$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$4$0.32
Results tracked1943

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 42.9 (#95), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SciCode47.5%26%
WeirdML54.1%14.4%
DeepSWE30.5%—
FrontierCode30.1%—
LMArena WebDev1473—
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
LMArena Coding—1268
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
ALE-Bench886.23—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 24.0 (#122), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
APEX-Agents37.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
BALROG—23%
GBAEval0.9%—
Vending-Bench 25,083—

Reasoning Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 39.0 (#61), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SimpleBench57.9%19.9%
CritPt10%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.97127.33
Chess Puzzles21%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1257
DTBench—59.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LMCA—17.5%
Surface Evolver Bench48.8%—
ForecastBench—58.6
LiveBench—50.2%

Math Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 52.9 (#48), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%5.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)54%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
LiveBench Math—42.2%
LMArena Math—1267
MATH Level 5—41.6%

Knowledge Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 53.5 (#57), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond87.9%47.4%
SimpleQA Verified36.5%—
Confabulations—22.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.1%
LMArena Expert—1225
MMLU—86.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1236
LMArena Chinese—1217
LMArena French—1281
LMArena German—1251
LMArena Japanese—1150
LMArena Korean—1143
LMArena Russian—1252
LMArena Spanish—1270

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1242

Long Context Not comparable

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

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1256

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text—1274
LMArena Creative Writing—1250
LMArena Multi-Turn—1280
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.7 Code better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Kimi K2.7 Code's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.7 Code 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 K2.7 Code lists at $0.95 and $4.

Is Kimi K2.7 Code or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K2.7 Code does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.7 Code and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.7 Code has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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