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Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.8

Rank #70 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 43.2 to 31.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 84.2% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 70.1% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index45.838.9
Released2025-11-062025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked2132

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.4 (#178), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Coding14541416
LMArena WebDev1322—
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 32.5 (#75), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
Chess Puzzles20%8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14281398
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 47.4 (#68), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%70.3%
LMArena Math14291394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#69), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond84.2%70.1%
LMArena Expert14391396
Confabulations—12.3%

Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.4 (#109), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English13981372
LMArena Chinese14561433
LMArena French14251418
LMArena German13901380
LMArena Japanese13571337
LMArena Korean13301331
LMArena Russian13911370
LMArena Spanish14061404

Instruction Following Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.0 (#109), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following14031363

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#102), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query14151379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.0 (#104), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text14151384
LMArena Creative Writing13741317
LMArena Multi-Turn14141378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.8 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (38.4 vs 37.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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