Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Llama 13b

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 60.0 to 13.8.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Llama 13b specifications
Kimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index45.824.4
Released2025-11-062023-02-24
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked2121

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
LMArena Coding1454683
LMArena WebDev1322—

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1428728
Chess Puzzles20%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—100.58
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
LMArena Math1429838
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
GPQA Diamond84.2%—
LMArena Expert1439—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
ScienceQA—43.3%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
LMArena Non-English1398819
LMArena Chinese1456—
LMArena French1425—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1357—
LMArena Korean1330—
LMArena Russian1391—
LMArena Spanish1406—

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1403781

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
LMArena Longer Query1415—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 13b
LMArena Text1415834
LMArena Creative Writing1374794
LMArena Multi-Turn1414753

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Llama 13b?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Llama 13b better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Llama 13b share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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