# Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) vs Phi-2

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has enough public results to be ranked (#134); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k2-vs-phi-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 40.9 | — |
| Rank | 134 | — |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.57 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.30 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 63.4% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 59.1% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 42.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1399 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 597.5 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 45.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.7% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 59.1% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 59.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.02 | 107.62 |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 42.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 59.4% |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 53.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 54.7% |

## Math

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 65.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1396 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 21.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 17.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1363 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.9% |
| MMLU | — | 58.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 73.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 45.2% |

## Multilingual

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | — |
| 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)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 85% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1347 | — |

## Long Context

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| CL-bench | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1349 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 85.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1666 | — |
| WildBench | 86.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better than Phi-2?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has enough public results to be ranked (#134); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.