# Gemma 7B vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-kimi-k2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B 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 writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.5 to 27.2.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 295 | 134 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.57 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1399 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.74 | 146.02 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1396 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1002 | 1363 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1416 |
| LMArena French | 1024 | 1379 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1384 |
| LMArena German | — | 1386 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1383 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1347 |
| IFEval | — | 85% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1353 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1349 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.