Noometry

Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Phi-4

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.4

Rank #63 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

30.9

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Phi-4 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 45.5 to 19.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 83.1% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 13.8% for Phi-4.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
ProviderMoonshot AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index45.430.9
Released2025-11-062024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked2137

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166), Phi-4: 33.8 (#237)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
LMArena Coding14541231
LMArena WebDev1322—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Phi-4: 22.6 (#120)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72), Phi-4: 17.0 (#287)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
Chess Puzzles20%1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14281220
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.43
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62), Phi-4: 19.6 (#279)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%13.8%
LMArena Math14291246
LiveBench Math—42%
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64), Phi-4: 32.5 (#204)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
GPQA Diamond84.2%56.1%
LMArena Expert14391203
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104), Phi-4: 37.4 (#232)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
LMArena Non-English13981197
LMArena Chinese14571211
LMArena French14251223
LMArena German13901222
LMArena Japanese13561158
LMArena Korean13291151
LMArena Russian13901209
LMArena Spanish14071234

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103), Phi-4: 60.6 (#246)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following14031201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99), Phi-4: 36.9 (#221)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query14151217

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99), Phi-4: 40.7 (#239)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPhi-4
LMArena Text14151217
LMArena Creative Writing13731182
LMArena Multi-Turn14141206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Phi-4?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Phi-4 better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Phi-4 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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