Doubao 1.5 Vision Pro vs Kimi K2 Thinking

ByteDance

Doubao 1.5 Vision Pro, released by ByteDance via Volcano Engine on January 22, 2025, is a multimodal large language model from the Doubao 1.5 family with comprehensive upgrades to visual reasoning, OCR, and fine-grained image understanding. Built on a large-scale sparse MoE architecture, it targets vision-intensive workflows including document analysis, chart interpretation, and visual question answering.

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Thinking, released by Moonshot AI on November 6, 2025, is a reasoning-focused variant of Kimi K2 with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters, featuring extended chain-of-thought processing for complex problem solving. It builds on K2's agentic coding strengths with additional capabilities for mathematical and scientific reasoning. Kimi K2 Thinking targets open-source deployments requiring deep, deliberate reasoning across coding and analytical domains.