Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
QvQ-72B-Preview supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Base was created as the foundation model in the K2 series, designed to serve as a starting point for fine-tuning and customization. Built to provide strong base capabilities for domain-specific applications, it enables developers to build specialized solutions on Moonshot's architecture.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QVQ-72B Preview was introduced as an experimental visual question answering model, designed to combine vision and language understanding for complex reasoning tasks. Built to demonstrate advanced multimodal reasoning capabilities, it represents Qwen's exploration into models that can analyze and reason about visual information.
6 months newer

QvQ-72B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-12-25

Kimi K2 Base
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Base

QvQ-72B-Preview

Kimi K2 Base

QvQ-72B-Preview