Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 21.2% higher average benchmark score. Kimi K2 Instruct offers 122.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is $2.27 cheaper per million tokens. 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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 7B was created as an efficient instruction-tuned model, designed to provide capable performance with just 7 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring reliable language understanding with minimal computational overhead, it serves as an accessible entry point to the Qwen 2.5 family.
9 months newer

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

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

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 8 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
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