# Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) vs Olmo 7b Instruct

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k2-vs-olmo-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.3 to 25.8.

## Snapshot

| | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 41.2 | 30.3 |
| Rank | 140 | 295 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.57 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.30 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1399 | 1016 |
| 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): 32.4 (#64)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

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

## Reasoning

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | 993 |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.01 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |

## Math

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1397 | 1018 |
| Omni-MATH | 65.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 21.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 17.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1365 | — |

## Multilingual

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1415 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1385 | 947 |
| LMArena French | 1379 | — |
| LMArena German | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1386 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1348 | 978 |
| IFEval | 85% | — |

## Long Context

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| CL-bench | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1380 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1350 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | 1007 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 85.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1666 | — |
| WildBench | 86.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.