Model comparison

Jamba Large vs Kimi K3

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Jamba Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Jamba Large AI21 Labs

33.1

Unranked Sparse

Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #15 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K3 leads 63.0 to 18.0.
  • Jamba Large is cheaper at $2 / $8 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Kimi K3.
  • Kimi K3 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Jamba Large and Kimi K3 specifications
Jamba LargeKimi K3
ProviderAI21 LabsMoonshot AI
Noometry Index33.159.5
Released2025-07-012026-07-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K1.05M
Max output4K1.05M
Input $ / M tokens$2$3
Output $ / M tokens$8$15
Results tracked253

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Jamba Large: —, Kimi K3: 61.0 (#10)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
DeepSWE—68.5%
FrontierCode—44.2%
LMArena WebDev—1654
FrontierSWE—25.9%
SciCode—59.5%
WeirdML—82.6%
LMArena Coding—1508
ALE-Bench—1,524

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Jamba Large: —, Kimi K3: 41.8 (#20)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
APEX-Agents—50.6%
τ²-bench Banking—37.1%
PostTrainBench—32%
GBAEval—48.3%
GDP.pdf—19%
Vending-Bench 2—5,165

Reasoning Kimi K3 leads

Jamba Large: 18.0, Kimi K3: 63.0 (#17)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
ARC-AGI-2—60.4%
SimpleBench—60.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark26.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)—93.6%
ARC-AGI-1—94.5%
CritPt—23.4%
Chess Puzzles—39%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1496
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—91.2%
LMCA—52.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—95%
Epoch Capabilities Index—157.45
ForecastBench—61.1

Math Not comparable

Jamba Large: —, Kimi K3: 74.2 (#16)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—72.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—39%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—87.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—97.2%
ProofBench—87%
LMArena Math—1491

Knowledge Kimi K3 leads

Jamba Large: 37.7, Kimi K3: 63.2 (#21)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
GPQA Diamond—93.1%
SimpleQA Verified—50.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.7%—
LMArena Expert—1521

Multimodal Not comparable

Jamba Large: —, Kimi K3: 37.8 (#70)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
Blueprint-Bench 2—29.5%
Furniture Assembly—34.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Jamba Large: —, Kimi K3: 56.3 (#21)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
LMArena Non-English—1466
LMArena Chinese—1529
LMArena French—1491
LMArena German—1488
LMArena Japanese—1487
LMArena Korean—1458
LMArena Russian—1482
LMArena Spanish—1472

Instruction Following Not comparable

Jamba Large: —, Kimi K3: 77.7 (#14)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
LMArena Instruction Following—1483

Long Context Not comparable

Jamba Large: —, Kimi K3: 45.8 (#29)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
LMArena Longer Query—1494

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Jamba Large: —, Kimi K3: 76.6 (#4)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkJamba LargeKimi K3
LMArena Text—1476
LMArena Creative Writing—1454
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2082
EQ-Bench 4—1339
LMArena Multi-Turn—1488

Frequently asked questions

Is Jamba Large better than Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Jamba Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Jamba Large or Kimi K3?

Jamba Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens; Kimi K3 lists at $3 and $15.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K3 does, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Jamba Large and Kimi K3 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Jamba Large has 2 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K3 has 53.

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