# Gemma 2 9B vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2-9b-vs-kimi-k2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 42.7 to 9.9.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 41.2 |
| Rank | 341 | 140 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.57 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1173 | 1399 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 34.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 22.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 40.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 2 9B: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1171 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.83 | 146.01 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 36.4% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |
| LiveBench | 28.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.7% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1183 | 1397 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 19.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 21% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 84.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1147 | 1365 |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |
| BoolQ | 85.7% | — |
| MMLU | 72.1% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1188 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1185 | 1415 |
| LMArena French | 1190 | 1379 |
| LMArena German | 1186 | 1387 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1144 | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | 1137 | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | 1200 | 1385 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1200 | 1386 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1178 | 1348 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 52.6% | — |
| IFEval | — | 85% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1197 | 1353 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 9B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1207 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1206 | 1350 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 841 | 1666 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1193 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |
| LiveBench Language | 25.5% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2 9B better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2 9B or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.