Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 12.1% higher average benchmark score. Kimi K2 Instruct offers 196.6K more tokens in context window than QwQ-32B-Preview. QwQ-32B-Preview is $2.52 cheaper per million tokens. QwQ-32B-Preview is available on 4 providers. 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
QwQ 32B Preview was introduced as an early access version of the QwQ reasoning model, designed to allow researchers and developers to experiment with advanced analytical capabilities. Built to gather feedback on reasoning-enhanced architecture, it represents an experimental step toward more thoughtful language models.
7 months newer

QwQ-32B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-11-28

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Kimi K2 Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Kimi K2 Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview
QwQ-32B-Preview
2024-11-28
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

QwQ-32B-Preview

Kimi K2 Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview

Kimi K2 Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview
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