Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 6.3% higher average benchmark score. Kimi K2 Instruct offers 130.0K more tokens in context window than GPT-4.5. Kimi K2 Instruct is $222.13 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Kimi K2 Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4.5 was developed as an intermediate advancement between GPT-4 and GPT-5, designed to incorporate incremental improvements in reasoning, factuality, and instruction-following. Built to bridge generational capabilities while maintaining compatibility with existing applications, it represents a refinement of the GPT-4 architecture with enhanced performance characteristics.
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.
4 months newer

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27

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

GPT-4.5

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

GPT-4.5

Kimi K2 Instruct
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

GPT-4.5

Kimi K2 Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4.5
OpenAI

Kimi K2 Instruct

GPT-4.5

Kimi K2 Instruct

GPT-4.5

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita