Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 3.3% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick offers 1.7M more tokens in context window than Kimi K2 Instruct. Llama 4 Maverick is $2.10 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick supports multimodal inputs. Llama 4 Maverick is available on 7 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
Meta
Llama 4 Maverick was developed as a variant in Meta's fourth-generation language model family, designed to explore specialized capabilities and training approaches. Built to push the boundaries of open-source model development, it represents experimentation with advanced techniques in the Llama lineage.
3 months newer

Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Kimi K2 Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Llama 4 Maverick

Kimi K2 Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

Kimi K2 Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita
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