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Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Mistral Nemo

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 50.9 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 84.2% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
ProviderMoonshot AIMistral AI
Noometry Index45.826.4
Released2025-11-062024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked2110

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
LMArena WebDev1322—
LMArena Coding1454—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
Chess Puzzles20%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1428—
DTBench—48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.68
PIQA—83.5%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%—
LMArena Math1429—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond84.2%29.9%
LMArena Expert1439—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1398—
LMArena Chinese1456—
LMArena French1425—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1357—
LMArena Korean1330—
LMArena Russian1391—
LMArena Spanish1406—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1403—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1415—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMistral Nemo
LMArena Text1415—
LMArena Creative Writing1374—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
LMArena Multi-Turn1414—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Mistral Nemo?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Mistral Nemo share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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