Model comparison
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Llama 3-8B
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 50.9 to 7.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 83.1% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 1.9% for Llama 3-8B.
Side by side
| Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 45.8 | 25.5 |
| Released | 2025-11-06 | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 21 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | 1152 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1322 | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 31.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 36.9% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |
Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1428 | 1133 |
| DTBench | — | 43.9% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 116.45 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.7% |
Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 83.1% | 1.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1429 | 1151 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |
Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 84.2% | 26.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | 1113 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 82.8% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 82.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 67.7% |
Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1398 | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1456 | 1076 |
| LMArena French | 1425 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1390 | 1104 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1357 | 967 |
| LMArena Korean | 1330 | 1004 |
| LMArena Russian | 1391 | 1109 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1406 | 1173 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1403 | 1127 |
Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | 1128 |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1415 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1374 | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1414 | 1152 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Llama 3-8B?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Llama 3-8B better for coding?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Llama 3-8B share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.