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Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Llama 3-70B

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.4

Rank #63 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.5

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 45.5 to 12.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 83.1% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
ProviderMoonshot AIMeta
Noometry Index45.428.5
Released2025-11-062024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked2131

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166), Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14541206
LMArena WebDev1322—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72), Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14281195
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
Chess Puzzles20%—
DTBench—54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.91
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62), Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%4.3%
LMArena Math14291218
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond84.2%40.6%
LMArena Expert14391149
MMLU—79.3%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104), Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13981142
LMArena Chinese14571114
LMArena French14251231
LMArena German13901169
LMArena Japanese13561017
LMArena Korean13291017
LMArena Russian13901159
LMArena Spanish14071241

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103), Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14031194

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14151174

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99), Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text14151221
LMArena Creative Writing13731210
LMArena Multi-Turn14141223

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Llama 3-70B?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 35.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Llama 3-70B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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