Noometry

Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.4

Rank #63 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

28.8

Rank #310 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 60.2 to 31.3.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderMoonshot AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index45.428.8
Released2025-11-062024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked2132

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.4 (#313)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Coding14541102
LMArena WebDev1322—
LiveBench Coding—20.3%

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.2 (#319)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14281100
Chess Puzzles20%—
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 25.4 (#247)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Math14291151
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%—
LiveBench Math—17.6%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#237)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert14391067
GPQA Diamond84.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.6 (#267)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English13981058
LMArena Chinese14571061
LMArena French14251134
LMArena German13901080
LMArena Japanese1356966
LMArena Korean1329894
LMArena Russian13901111
LMArena Spanish14071111

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 52.2 (#287)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14031087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#262)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14151088

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.3 (#279)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text14151110
LMArena Creative Writing13731083
LMArena Multi-Turn14141068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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