# Grok 3 vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-kimi-k2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 34

## Summary

- They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 3 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 3 leads 46.0 to 36.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 46.4% for Grok 3 and 65.4% for Kimi K2 (Jul 2025).
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 150 | 134 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.57 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | 59.1% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | 42.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1399 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.2 (#69)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 64.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | 146.02 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |

## Math

- Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1396 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | 1363 |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1416 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1379 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1386 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | 1324 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1384 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1383 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | 85% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1347 |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1353 |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1349 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | 1666 |
| WildBench | 84.9% | 86.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1371 |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 39.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 3 or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 41.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.