Model comparison

Grok 4.7 vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) costs 3.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.7 xAI

53.1

Rank #37 Confirmed

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) Moonshot AI

41.2

Rank #140 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.7 leads 49.1 to 23.3.
  • Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is cheaper at $0.57 / $2.30 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Grok 4.7.
  • Grok 4.7 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 262K.
  • Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.7 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) specifications
Grok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
ProviderxAIMoonshot AI
Noometry Index53.141.2
Released2026-09-212025-07-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K262K
Max output500K262K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.57
Output $ / M tokens$6$2.30
Results tracked3942

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 58.0 (#18), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Coding14271399
FrontierCode47.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—63.4%
Aider Polyglot—59.1%
CursorBench46.3%—
LMArena WebDev1639—
FrontierSWE29.5%—
SciCode57.8%—
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—42.8%
ALE-Bench—597.5

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 36.7 (#37), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Terminal-Bench—35.7%
APEX-Agents54.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—59.1%
GDP.pdf22.8%—
METR Time Horizons—59.2%
Vending-Bench 210,537—

Reasoning Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 49.1 (#40), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Hard Prompts14131384
Epoch Capabilities Index153.53146.01
SimpleBench—26.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—64.4%
NYT Connections (extended)76.8%—
CritPt18%—
Chess Puzzles38%—
Mystery Game Puzzles29%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA49.4%—
ForecastBench—60.2

Math Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 57.8 (#39), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Math14071397
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)53%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.1%—
ProofBench34%—
Omni-MATH—65.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 62.8 (#22), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Expert14221365
GPQA Diamond92.7%—
SimpleQA Verified56%—
MMLU-Pro—81.9%
Confabulations—20.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—17.9%
GPQA (HELM)—65.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.7: 35.5 (#87), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Vision1228—
Blueprint-Bench 232.5%—
Furniture Assembly20.8%—

Multilingual Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 50.8 (#116), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Non-English13891372
LMArena Chinese14551415
LMArena French14551379
LMArena Russian13971385
LMArena Spanish14001386
LMArena German—1387
LMArena Japanese—1349
LMArena Korean—1325

Instruction Following Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 74.1 (#105), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following14041348
IFEval—85%

Long Context Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 43.1 (#104), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Longer Query14131353
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—17.6%

Writing & Preference Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 70.0 (#24), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Text13991380
LMArena Creative Writing13911350
EQ-Bench Creative Writing20071666
LMArena Multi-Turn13931371
Short-Story Creative Writing—85.6%
WildBench—86.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.7 better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) costs 3.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.7 or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is cheaper. It lists at $0.57 per million input tokens and $2.30 per million output tokens; Grok 4.7 lists at $2 and $6.

Is Grok 4.7 or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Grok 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.0 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.7 does, with 500K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.7 and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.7 has 39 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.

Related comparisons

Go deeper