# Gemma 2B vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-kimi-k2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.5 to 24.1.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 305 | 134 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.57 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 28.9 (#300)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1399 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 2B: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)

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

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 17.9 (#275)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 93.57 | 146.02 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 27.6 (#237)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1396 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1363 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.1 (#289)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1416 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1384 |
| LMArena French | — | 1379 |
| LMArena German | — | 1386 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1383 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.8 (#297)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 971 | 1347 |
| IFEval | — | 85% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#286)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1353 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.1 (#303)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 986 | 1349 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |

## FAQ

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

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

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

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 28.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.