Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 offers 124.9K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Kimi K2 is $8.90 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 2 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2, released by Moonshot AI on July 11, 2025, is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window (expanded from 128K in an September 2025 update) and demonstrated strong performance on agentic coding benchmarks. Kimi K2 targets software engineering agents, tool-use workflows, and open-source deployments under a modified MIT license.
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Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 2
Kimi K2
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 2
xAI
Kimi K2
Grok 2
Kimi K2
Grok 2
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI