Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 14.4% 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
Qwen2 72B was developed as the flagship model in the Qwen2 generation, designed to provide advanced language understanding with 72 billion parameters. Built to deliver strong performance across diverse tasks, it represented a significant advancement in Qwen's model capabilities when introduced.
11 months newer

Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct