Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 leads with 31.1% 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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B was created as an efficient coding-specialized model, designed to bring strong programming capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built with 7 billion parameters optimized for code understanding and generation, it provides developers with a lightweight option for code-related tasks.
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Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905
Moonshot AI
2025-09-05
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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