Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Qwen-14B

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

Qwen-14B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen-14B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 60.0 to 27.6.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Qwen-14B specifications
Kimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index45.831.4
Released2025-11-062023-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2118

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
LMArena Coding14541071
LMArena WebDev1322—

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
LMArena Hard Prompts14281027
Chess Puzzles20%—
BIG-Bench Hard—55%
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.03
LAMBADA—71.1%
PIQA—79.9%

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
LMArena Math14291068
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%—
GSM8K—61.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), Qwen-14B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
GPQA Diamond84.2%—
LMArena Expert1439—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.4%
BoolQ—86.2%
MMLU—66.3%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
LMArena Non-English13981041
LMArena Chinese14561077
LMArena French1425—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1357—
LMArena Korean1330—
LMArena Russian1391—
LMArena Spanish1406—

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
LMArena Instruction Following14031031

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
LMArena Longer Query14151028

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen-14B
LMArena Text14151051
LMArena Creative Writing13741028
LMArena Multi-Turn14141022

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Qwen-14B?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Qwen-14B better for coding?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Qwen-14B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.

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