Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 23.2% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Kimi K2 Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
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.
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Microsoft
2024-08-23

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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