Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 leads with 1.5% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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
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-Instruct-0905
Moonshot AI
2025-09-05
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 10 common benchmarks

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Qwen3 235B A22B

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Qwen3 235B A22B
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