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

> Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/kimi-k2-vs-phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct 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 27.6.

## Snapshot

| | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 41.2 | 27.9 |
| Rank | 140 | 328 |
| 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: 26.6 (#323)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1399 | 1093 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 63.4% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 59.1% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 42.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| ALE-Bench | 597.5 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 14.1 (#328)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | 1072 |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.01 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |

## Math

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1397 | 1111 |
| Omni-MATH | 65.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 21.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1365 | 1045 |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 17.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |

## Multilingual

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1415 | 1021 |
| LMArena French | 1379 | 1076 |
| LMArena German | 1387 | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1349 | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | 1325 | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | 1385 | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1386 | 1085 |

## Instruction Following

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1348 | 1053 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
| IFEval | 85% | — |

## Long Context

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | 1044 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| CL-bench | 17.6% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1380 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1350 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | 1018 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 85.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1666 | — |
| WildBench | 86.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |

## FAQ

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

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.