Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 26.8% 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 7B was created as an efficient variant in the Qwen2 family, designed to provide capable instruction-following with 7 billion parameters. Built to serve as a practical foundation for applications requiring reliable language understanding, it balances performance with deployment efficiency.
11 months newer

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

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Qwen2 7B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2 7B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2 7B Instruct