Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Qwen3 235B A22B 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
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29

Kimi K2 Base
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 7 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen3 235B A22B

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen3 235B A22B
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