Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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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
Qwen3-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
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Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Kimi K2 Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base