# Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k2-vs-phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-june
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.3 to 29.6.

## Snapshot

| | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 41.2 | 31.3 |
| Rank | 140 | 276 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.57 | — |
| Output $/M | $2.30 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.8 (#279)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1399 | 1093 |
| 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)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.7% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 59.1% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 59.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 20.8 (#231)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | 1087 |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.01 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |

## Math

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 33.0 (#208)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1397 | 1152 |
| Omni-MATH | 65.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 21.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 28.6 (#244)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1365 | 1051 |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 17.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 25.9 (#282)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | 1013 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1415 | 1033 |
| LMArena German | 1387 | 1031 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1349 | 954 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 880 |
| LMArena Russian | 1385 | 1019 |
| LMArena French | 1379 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1386 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 54.1 (#282)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1348 | 1058 |
| IFEval | 85% | — |

## Long Context

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 31.7 (#277)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | 1042 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| CL-bench | 17.6% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024: 29.6 (#294)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1380 | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1350 | 1045 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | 1049 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 85.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1666 | — |
| WildBench | 86.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 31.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct June 2024 has 15.