Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Base leads with 11.4% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Kimi K2 Base is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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 Coder 32B was developed as a specialized coding model, designed to excel at programming tasks with 32 billion parameters specifically optimized for code. Built to understand and generate code across multiple programming languages, it serves developers requiring advanced code completion, debugging, and explanation capabilities.
9 months newer

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

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
DeepInfra

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
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