Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Llama 2-13B

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.4

Rank #63 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 60.2 to 30.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 20% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 0% for Llama 2-13B.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Llama 2-13B specifications
Kimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index45.429.1
Released2025-11-062023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2132

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166), Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding14541062
LMArena WebDev1322—

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72), Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles20%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14281051
DTBench—42.2%
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—105.8
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62), Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
LMArena Math14291065
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64), Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert14391030
GPQA Diamond84.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104), Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English13981024
LMArena Chinese14571001
LMArena French14251043
LMArena German13901009
LMArena Japanese1356894
LMArena Korean1329953
LMArena Russian13901055
LMArena Spanish14071086

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103), Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following14031046

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query14151064

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99), Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text14151085
LMArena Creative Writing13731047
LMArena Multi-Turn14141050

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Llama 2-13B?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Llama 2-13B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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