Model comparison
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Llama 4 Scout
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 47.4 to 19.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 83.1% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 7.8% for Llama 4 Scout.
Side by side
| Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 45.8 | 27.7 |
| Released | 2025-11-06 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | 1286 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9.1% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1322 | — |
| SciCode | — | 17% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |
Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1428 | 1266 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 0.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | — |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.64 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 83.1% | 7.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1429 | 1287 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 62.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 84.2% | 51.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | 1235 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1118 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |
Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1398 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1456 | 1255 |
| LMArena French | 1425 | 1282 |
| LMArena German | 1390 | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1357 | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | 1330 | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | 1391 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1406 | 1278 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1403 | 1248 |
| IFEval | — | 81.8% |
Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | 1265 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 36% |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1415 | 1279 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1374 | 1249 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1414 | 1280 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 783 |
| WildBench | — | 78% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Llama 4 Scout?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Llama 4 Scout share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.