Model comparison

Kimi K2.7 Code vs Llama 3-8B

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI

43.3

Rank #94 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.7 Code leads 53.5 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Kimi K2.7 Code and 1.9% for Llama 3-8B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.7 Code and Llama 3-8B specifications
Kimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index43.325.5
Released2026-06-122024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.95—
Output $ / M tokens$4—
Results tracked1934

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 42.9 (#95), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
DeepSWE30.5%—
FrontierCode30.1%—
LMArena WebDev1473—
SciCode47.5%—
WeirdML54.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
LMArena Coding—1152
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
ALE-Bench886.23—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: 24.0 (#122), Llama 3-8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
APEX-Agents37.6%—
GBAEval0.9%—
Vending-Bench 25,083—

Reasoning Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 39.0 (#61), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
Chess Puzzles21%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.97116.45
SimpleBench57.9%—
CritPt10%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1133
DTBench—43.9%
Surface Evolver Bench48.8%—
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
ForecastBench—58.6
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 52.9 (#48), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%1.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)54%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
LMArena Math—1151
MATH Level 5—6.1%

Knowledge Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 53.5 (#57), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond87.9%26.1%
SimpleQA Verified36.5%—
LMArena Expert—1113
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English—1098
LMArena Chinese—1076
LMArena French—1159
LMArena German—1104
LMArena Japanese—967
LMArena Korean—1004
LMArena Russian—1109
LMArena Spanish—1173

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following—1127

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query—1128

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text—1166
LMArena Creative Writing—1150
LMArena Multi-Turn—1152

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.7 Code better than Llama 3-8B?

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.7 Code or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

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

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.7 Code and Llama 3-8B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.7 Code has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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