Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 offers 128.2K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.1. DeepSeek-V3.1 is $1.73 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.1, released by DeepSeek in August 2025, is a hybrid large language model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active) that unifies the capabilities of DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 in a single model. It features a 128K token context window and supports both direct generation and extended reasoning modes selectable via the chat template. DeepSeek-V3.1 targets general-purpose tasks, coding, and complex 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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Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11

DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
2025-08-21
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.1
Kimi K2
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
Kimi K2
DeepSeek-V3.1
Kimi K2
DeepSeek-V3.1
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI