# Kimi K2.5 vs Llama 2-13B

> Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-llama-2-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2.5 leads 65.3 to 30.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 12% for Kimi K2.5 and 0% for Llama 2-13B.

## Snapshot

| | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 47.8 | 29.1 |
| Rank | 50 | 304 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.45 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Kimi K2.5: 48.7 (#48)
- Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1474 | 1062 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.8% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 70.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1436 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 67.3% | — |
| SciCode | 49% | — |
| WeirdML | 45.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 821.65 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Kimi K2.5: 34.0 (#44)
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 43.2% | — |
| OSWorld | 63.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,198 | — |

## Reasoning

- Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#74)
- Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1454 | 1051 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.05 | 105.8 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 11.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 78.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 69.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 65.3% | — |
| CritPt | 3.1% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.4% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 69.4% | — |
| DTBench | — | 42.2% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 58.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | — | 76.5% |
| PIQA | — | 80.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.8% |

## Math

- Kimi K2.5: 50.3 (#46)
- Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1470 | 1065 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 62.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 92.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 27.9% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 36.9% |

## Knowledge

- Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#52)
- Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1466 | 1030 |
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 24.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.2% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 82.4% |
| MMLU | — | 55.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 57% |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.6% |

## Multimodal

- Kimi K2.5: 40.4 (#37)
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1430 | — |
| ScienceQA | — | 55.8% |

## Multilingual

- Kimi K2.5: 54.1 (#50)
- Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1433 | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | 1001 |
| LMArena French | 1454 | 1043 |
| LMArena German | 1441 | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | 1412 | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | 1436 | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1450 | 1086 |

## Instruction Following

- Kimi K2.5: 75.5 (#60)
- Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1431 | 1046 |

## Long Context

- Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)
- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1445 | 1064 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 86.1% | — |
| CL-bench | 19.3% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 13.2% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Kimi K2.5: 65.3 (#51)
- Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1445 | 1085 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1423 | 1047 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1050 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1579 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Kimi K2.5 better than Llama 2-13B?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Kimi K2.5 or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 and Llama 2-13B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.