# Claude 2 vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-kimi-k2
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 42.7 to 9.3.
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 41.2 |
| Rank | 346 | 140 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.57 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1399 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 146.01 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1384 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1397 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1365 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1415 |
| LMArena French | — | 1379 |
| LMArena German | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1385 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1386 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 85% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1348 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1353 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1371 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.