Model comparison

Kimi K2.7 Code vs Llama 4 Maverick

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 5.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Kimi K2.7 Code's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI

43.3

Rank #94 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.7 Code leads 39.0 to 10.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Kimi K2.7 Code and 20.6% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 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 4 Maverick specifications
Kimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index43.330.9
Released2026-06-122025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K128K
Max output262K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.95$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$4$0.65
Results tracked1954

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 42.9 (#95), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
SciCode47.5%33.1%
WeirdML54.1%24.5%
ALE-Bench886.23172.97
DeepSWE30.5%—
FrontierCode30.1%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
LMArena WebDev1473—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
LMArena Coding—1302
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 4 Maverick leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 24.0 (#122), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
APEX-Agents37.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
GBAEval0.9%—
Vending-Bench 25,083—

Reasoning Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 39.0 (#61), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
SimpleBench57.9%27.7%
CritPt10%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.97132.2
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
Chess Puzzles21%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1281
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
Surface Evolver Bench48.8%—
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 52.9 (#48), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%20.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)54%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
LMArena Math—1299
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 53.5 (#57), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond87.9%67%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
SimpleQA Verified36.5%—
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%
LMArena Expert—1259

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English—1269
LMArena Chinese—1277
LMArena French—1259
LMArena German—1291
LMArena Japanese—1207
LMArena Korean—1203
LMArena Russian—1286
LMArena Spanish—1293

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
IFEval—90.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1267

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1280

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text—1287
LMArena Creative Writing—1267
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1289

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.7 Code better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Kimi K2.7 Code is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.3 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 5.6× 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 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Kimi K2.7 Code lists at $0.95 and $4.

Is Kimi K2.7 Code or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.9 versus 26.6 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 4 Maverick share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.7 Code has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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