Model comparison
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) vs Llama 3.2 90B
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 40.1 to 10.4.
Side by side
| Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 40.9 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-07-12 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.57 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.30 | — |
| Results tracked | 42 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 43.1 (#83), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 63.4% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 59.1% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 42.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1399 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 597.5 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.2 (#59), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.7% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 59.1% | — |
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |
| METR Time Horizons | 59.2% | — |
Reasoning Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 22.7 (#173), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.02 | 125.5 |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1384 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 40.1 (#81), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 65.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1396 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 21.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 36.9 (#153), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41% |
| MMLU-Pro | 81.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 17.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1363 | — |
| MMLU | — | 80.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): —, Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.8 (#125), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1372 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1416 | — |
| LMArena French | 1379 | — |
| LMArena German | 1386 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1383 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.3 (#151), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 85% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1347 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#140), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| CL-bench | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.5 (#76), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1349 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 85.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1666 | — |
| WildBench | 86.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1371 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better than Llama 3.2 90B?
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) and Llama 3.2 90B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.