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Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Mixtral 8x7B

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B 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 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 84.2% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
ProviderMoonshot AIMistral AI
Noometry Index45.827.1
Released2025-11-062023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—32K
Max output—32K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked2138

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14541126
LMArena WebDev1322—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14281115
Chess Puzzles20%—
DTBench—49.6%
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.47
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math14291147
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%—
Omni-MATH—10.5%
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond84.2%30.6%
LMArena Expert14391088
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English13981077
LMArena Chinese14561055
LMArena French14251166
LMArena German13901114
LMArena Japanese1357931
LMArena Korean1330968
LMArena Russian13911090
LMArena Spanish14061111

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following14031109
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query14151103

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text14151132
LMArena Creative Writing13741109
LMArena Multi-Turn14141115
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Mixtral 8x7B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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