Which is better, Kimi K2 Instruct or Qwen3.5 2B?

Kimi K2 Instruct vs Qwen3.5 2B

23 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 23 shared benchmarks, Kimi K2 Instruct scores higher on 21 and Qwen3.5 2B on 1, with 1 level. The widest gap is Artificial Analysis Coding Index, where Kimi K2 Instruct scores 25.9 against 2.9.

MOONSHOTVSALIBABA23 SHARED21–1 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkKimi K2 InstructMARGINQwen3.5 2B

AA Agentic Index37.70.8

AA Intelligence246.9

AA-LCR5325.6

AA-Omniscience-26.6-60.2

AIME 202469.617

AIME 20255719

Artificial Analysis Coding Index25.92.9

critpt00

gdpval18.20

GPQA Diamond7751.6

HLE7.95

IFBench4241.3

ifeval89.878.6

math_500_em97.481.5

mmlu_redux92.779.6

MMLU-Pro82.566.5

multichallenge54.133.7

OmniScience Accuracy25.48.1

OmniScience Non-Hallucination30.325.8

scicode317.2

supergpqa57.237.5

Terminal-Bench Hard23.53.8

τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)73.481.6

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.

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