Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
2 months newer

Kimi K2 Base
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Kimi K2 Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base