Model comparison
Deepseek Coder v2 vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 1 category and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 62.3 to 38.2.
Side by side
| Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2024-06-17 | 2025-07-12 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.57 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.30 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1251 | 1399 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |
| HumanEval+ | 82.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 75.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 59.2% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1207 | 1384 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.01 |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |
| WinoGrande | 83.7% | — |
Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1241 | 1397 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 94.5% | — |
Knowledge Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1181 | 1365 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 64.3% | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1182 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1201 | 1415 |
| LMArena French | 1185 | 1379 |
| LMArena German | 1164 | 1387 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1126 | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | 1104 | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | 1188 | 1385 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1153 | 1386 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1180 | 1348 |
| IFEval | — | 85% |
Long Context Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1353 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1120 | 1350 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1177 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.