Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 12.2% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Kimi K2 Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Codestral 22B was developed as a specialized coding model from Mistral AI, designed to excel at code generation, completion, and understanding tasks. Built with 22 billion parameters optimized for programming, it serves developers requiring advanced assistance with software development across multiple programming languages.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Kimi K2, designed to follow user instructions reliably across diverse tasks. Built to serve general-purpose conversational and task-completion applications, it provides Moonshot's accessible interface for language AI.
1 year newer

Codestral-22B
Mistral AI
2024-05-29

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Codestral-22B

Kimi K2 Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Codestral-22B

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Codestral-22B

Kimi K2 Instruct

Codestral-22B

Kimi K2 Instruct