Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 21.5% 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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B was created as an efficient coding-specialized model, designed to bring strong programming capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built with 7 billion parameters optimized for code understanding and generation, it provides developers with a lightweight option for code-related tasks.
9 months newer

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

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

Kimi K2 Instruct

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

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct