Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads with 21.4% higher average benchmark score. Kimi K2 Instruct offers 32.8K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is $2.19 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp was introduced as an experimental release, designed to test new architectural innovations and training methodologies. Built to explore the boundaries of mixture-of-experts design, it serves as a research preview for techniques that may be incorporated into future stable releases.
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.
2 months newer

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
DeepSeek
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Kimi K2 Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 9 common benchmarks

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Kimi K2 Instruct
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

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Kimi K2 Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
Novita
ZeroEval

Kimi K2 Instruct

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Kimi K2 Instruct

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita