Kimi K2 8B on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means
Kimi K2 8B scores 55.0 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #406 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Kimi K2 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 2 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 4 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 5 | Grok 4 Turbo | xAI | 1000000 | $19.21 | 86.7 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Turbo | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.19 | 86.1 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 8 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 10 | Gemini 3 Pro Max | Google DeepMind | 2000000 | $20.57 | 87.9 |
What this score means
On LiveCodeBench, Kimi K2 8B sits at #406 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 30.1 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Kimi K2 8B below the midpoint.
Moonshot AI models average 62.5 on this benchmark. Kimi K2 8B is 7.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Moonshot AI model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 41.2. Kimi K2 8B is 13.8 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 55.0 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $1.86 per million input tokens, Kimi K2 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StableLM 2 | Stability AI | 8192 | $1.91 | 65.0 |
| Sonar Mini | Perplexity | 65536 | $6.52 | 67.9 |
| Sonar Nano | Perplexity | 4096 | $4.37 | 61.9 |
| Embed 4 Turbo | Cohere | 4096 | $5.13 | 64.0 |
| Kimi K2 8B | Moonshot AI | 8192 | $1.86 | 64.7 |
| Nova Lite Mini | Amazon | 16384 | $5.43 | 65.0 |
| SmolLM3 Chat | Hugging Face | 16384 | $1.61 | 62.1 |
Other benchmarks for Kimi K2 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3 | 427 | 29th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.3 | 411 | 32th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 50.9 | 414 | 31th | |
| HumanEval | 69.9 | 395 | 34th | |
| MATH-500 | 68.7 | 392 | 35th | |
| AIME 2025 | 55.4 | 414 | 31th | |
| IFEval | 75.4 | 394 | 34th | |
| TruthfulQA | 69.4 | 404 | 33th | |
| HellaSwag | 78.6 | 398 | 34th | |
| MMMU | 62.2 | 406 | 32th | |
| Arena Elo | 1311.4 | 406 | 32th |
FAQ
What score does Kimi K2 8B get on LiveCodeBench?
Kimi K2 8B scores 55.0 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.
How does Kimi K2 8B rank on LiveCodeBench?
It ranks #406 of 600 models, in the 32nd percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Is Kimi K2 8B good at LiveCodeBench?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the LiveCodeBench score calculated?
LiveCodeBench is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Kimi K2 8B cost?
Kimi K2 8B costs $1.86 per million input tokens and $10.03 per million output tokens.