Model comparison
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Qwen3 8B
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 31.4 to 16.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 84.2% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 56.8% for Qwen3 8B.
Side by side
| Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 45.4 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2025-11-06 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1322 | — |
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1428 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 83.1% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1429 | — |
Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 84.2% | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1398 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1457 | — |
| LMArena French | 1425 | — |
| LMArena German | 1390 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1356 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1329 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1390 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1407 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1403 | — |
Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1415 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1414 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Qwen3 8B?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Qwen3 8B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.