# Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) vs Llama 13b

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k2-vs-llama-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.5 to 13.9.

## Snapshot

| | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 40.9 | 23.9 |
| Rank | 134 | 344 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.57 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.30 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)
- Llama 13b: 20.9 (#332)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1399 | 683 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 63.4% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 59.1% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 42.8% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 597.5 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)
- Llama 13b: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.7% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 59.1% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 59.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)
- Llama 13b: 13.4 (#327)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | 728 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.02 | 100.09 |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 37.9% |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 79.2% |
| LAMBADA | — | 75.2% |
| PIQA | — | 80.1% |
| WinoGrande | — | 73% |

## Math

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)
- Llama 13b: 24.4 (#259)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1396 | 838 |
| Omni-MATH | 65.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 21.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 20.6% |

## Knowledge

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)
- Llama 13b: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 17.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1363 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 52.7% |
| BoolQ | — | 78.7% |
| MMLU | — | 47.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 56.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 77.9% |

## Multimodal

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): —
- Llama 13b: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | — | 43.3% |

## Multilingual

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)
- Llama 13b: 16.8 (#292)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | 819 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1416 | — |
| LMArena French | 1379 | — |
| LMArena German | 1386 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1383 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151)
- Llama 13b: 36.9 (#300)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1347 | 781 |
| IFEval | 85% | — |

## Long Context

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)
- Llama 13b: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| CL-bench | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)
- Llama 13b: 13.9 (#307)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1380 | 834 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1349 | 794 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | 753 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 85.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1666 | — |
| WildBench | 86.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better than Llama 13b?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) or Llama 13b better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 20.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Llama 13b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.