Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2.5 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2.5 leads 65.1 to 33.4.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Kimi K2.5 specifications
Codellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
ProviderMetaMoonshot AI
Noometry Index33.748.1
Released—2026-01-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$2.25
Results tracked751

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—70.8%
LMArena WebDev—1437
SWE-bench Multilingual—67.3%
SciCode—49%
WeirdML—45.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LMArena Coding—1474
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
ALE-Bench—821.65
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
Terminal-Bench—43.2%
OSWorld—63.3%
Vending-Bench 2—1,198

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
LMArena Hard Prompts10521453
ARC-AGI-2—11.8%
SimpleBench—46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—78.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—69.9%
ARC-AGI-1—65.3%
CritPt—3.1%
Chess Puzzles—12%
EnigmaEval—3.4%
Thematic Generalization—69.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—148.03

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—62.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—92.2%
LMArena Math—1470
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—27.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
GPQA Diamond—87.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—24.4%
SimpleQA Verified—34.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.2%
LMArena Expert—1466

Multimodal Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
LMArena Vision—1269
LMArena Document—1430

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
LMArena Non-English9921433
LMArena Chinese—1495
LMArena French—1454
LMArena German—1441
LMArena Japanese—1421
LMArena Korean—1410
LMArena Russian—1435
LMArena Spanish—1450

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
LMArena Instruction Following10241431

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
Fiction.LiveBench—86.1%
CL-bench—19.3%
CL-bench Life—13.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1445

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructKimi K2.5
LMArena Text10571445
LMArena Creative Writing—1423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1579
LMArena Multi-Turn—1444

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Kimi K2.5 better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Kimi K2.5 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 has 51.

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