Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 leads with 28.2% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct-0905 represents a specific release iteration of the K2 Instruct model, developed to incorporate refinements and improvements. Built to provide enhanced instruction-following based on deployment feedback, it continues the evolution of Moonshot's instruction-tuned offerings.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 MoE was created using a mixture-of-experts architecture, designed to provide enhanced capabilities while maintaining efficiency through sparse activation. Built to combine the benefits of larger models with practical computational requirements, it represents Microsoft's exploration of efficient scaling techniques.
1 year newer

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Microsoft
2024-08-23

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905
Moonshot AI
2025-09-05
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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