Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads with 2.7% higher average benchmark score. 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
Qwen 2.5 32B was created as a larger variant in the Qwen 2.5 family, designed to deliver enhanced capabilities with 32 billion parameters. Built to serve applications requiring stronger reasoning and generation quality, it represents a powerful option for demanding language understanding tasks.
9 months newer

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Kimi K2 Base
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct