# Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

> Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.5 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-experimental-chat-26-02-10-vs-kimi-k2
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 scores higher in 6 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 leads 30.1 to 23.3.
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 44.5 | 41.2 |
| Rank | 77 | 140 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.57 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: 43.9 (#82)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1483 | 1399 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: 30.1 (#86)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1458 | 1384 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.01 |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: 39.3 (#109)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1438 | 1397 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: 42.3 (#97)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1506 | 1365 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: 54.0 (#50)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1434 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1463 | 1415 |
| LMArena Russian | 1423 | 1385 |
| LMArena French | — | 1379 |
| LMArena German | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1386 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: 75.2 (#69)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1427 | 1348 |
| IFEval | — | 85% |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: 44.0 (#77)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1441 | 1353 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10: 61.8 (#84)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1448 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1368 | 1350 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1442 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.5 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.9 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 02 10 has 12 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.