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Kimi K2 Instruct vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 9.0% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Kimi K2 Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Kimi K2, designed to follow user instructions reliably across diverse tasks. Built to serve general-purpose conversational and task-completion applications, it provides Moonshot's accessible interface for language AI.
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NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B was created as a compact variant optimized by NVIDIA, designed to bring Llama 3.1 capabilities to more efficient deployments. Built with NVIDIA's efficiency optimizations, it serves applications requiring strong performance with reduced resource requirements.
3 months newer
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
NVIDIA
2025-03-18
Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
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Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Average Score:78.0%(+9.0%)
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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Average Score:69.0%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
2023-12-31
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Kimi K2 Instruct
1 providers
Novita
Throughput: 45 tok/s
Latency: 0.95ms
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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Avg Score:78.0%(+9.0%)
Providers:1
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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Avg Score:69.0%
Providers:0