Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 offers 128.2K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-R1. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1, released by DeepSeek on January 20, 2025, is a large reasoning model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active in its MoE architecture) designed for extended chain-of-thought reasoning. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks at its release. DeepSeek-R1 targets complex analytical tasks, competitive programming, and applications requiring deep deliberative reasoning under an open MIT license.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2, released by Moonshot AI on July 11, 2025, is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window (expanded from 128K in an September 2025 update) and demonstrated strong performance on agentic coding benchmarks. Kimi K2 targets software engineering agents, tool-use workflows, and open-source deployments under a modified MIT license.
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DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-R1
Kimi K2
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
Kimi K2
DeepSeek-R1
Kimi K2
DeepSeek-R1
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI