Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 4.8% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. 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 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
9 months newer

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Kimi K2 Base
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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