Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct offers 3.6K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek VL2. Kimi K2 Instruct is $4806.63 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek VL2 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2 was developed as a vision-language model, designed to handle both visual and textual inputs for multimodal understanding tasks. Built to extend DeepSeek's capabilities beyond text-only processing, it enables applications requiring integrated analysis of images and language.
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.
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DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
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