Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2.5 offers 124.9K more tokens in context window than Grok 2. Kimi K2.5 is $4.50 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 K2.5, released by Moonshot AI in January 2026, is an updated Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters. It builds on Kimi K2 with improved coding performance across multiple languages and an expanded context window. Kimi K2.5 targets agentic development workflows, polyglot code generation, and open-source deployments requiring large-scale MoE reasoning.
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Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI
2026-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Grok 2
Kimi K2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok 2
xAI
Kimi K2.5
Grok 2
Kimi K2.5
Grok 2
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI