Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 13.6% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. 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
Qwen2.5-VL 32B was developed as a mid-sized vision-language model, designed to balance multimodal capability with practical deployment considerations. Built with 32 billion parameters for vision and language integration, it serves applications requiring strong visual understanding without flagship-scale resources.
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Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-02-28

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct