Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 14.1% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite offers 794.6K more tokens in context window than Kimi K2 Instruct. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is $2.50 cheaper per million tokens. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Kimi K2 Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite was created as an even more efficient variant of Gemini 2.0 Flash, designed for applications where minimal latency and maximum cost-effectiveness are essential. Built to bring next-generation multimodal capabilities to resource-constrained deployments, it optimizes for speed and affordability.
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.
5 months newer

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
2025-02-05

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

Kimi K2 Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

Kimi K2 Instruct
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
2024-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

Kimi K2 Instruct

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

Kimi K2 Instruct

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

Kimi K2 Instruct
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