Model comparison

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) vs Longcat Flash Chat

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Longcat Flash Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.2 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) Moonshot AI

41.2

Rank #140 Confirmed

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

42.1

Rank #120 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher in 3 categories and Longcat Flash Chat in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 23.3 to 19.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 64.4% for Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and 43.9% for Longcat Flash Chat.

Side by side

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Longcat Flash Chat specifications
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
ProviderMoonshot AIMeituan
Noometry Index41.242.1
Released2025-07-12—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.57—
Output $ / M tokens$2.30—
Results tracked4219

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Category by category

Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Coding13991471
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)63.4%—
Aider Polyglot59.1%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML42.8%—
ALE-Bench597.5—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
Terminal-Bench35.7%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard59.1%—
METR Time Horizons59.2%—

Reasoning Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
Kagi LLM Benchmark64.4%43.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13841440
SimpleBench26.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—17.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.01—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Math13971442
Omni-MATH65.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)21.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Expert13651454
MMLU-Pro81.9%—
Confabulations20.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate17.9%—
GPQA (HELM)65.3%—

Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Non-English13721404
LMArena Chinese14151465
LMArena French13791456
LMArena German13871408
LMArena Japanese13491373
LMArena Korean13251371
LMArena Russian13851395
LMArena Spanish13861445

Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Instruction Following13481411
IFEval85%—

Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Longer Query13531425
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—
CL-bench17.6%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 (Jul 2025)Longcat Flash Chat
LMArena Text13801427
LMArena Creative Writing13501388
LMArena Multi-Turn13711418
Short-Story Creative Writing85.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1666—
WildBench86.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better than Longcat Flash Chat?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Longcat Flash Chat score almost the same on the Noometry Index (41.2 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?

Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Longcat Flash Chat share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.

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