Model Comparison

Comprehensive side-by-side analysis of model capabilities and performance

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct is a language model developed by Moonshot AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 66.7% across 38 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MATH-500 (97.4%), GSM8k (97.3%), CBNSL (95.6%). It supports a 144K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. Released in 2025, it represents Moonshot AI's latest advancement in AI technology.

Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is a language model developed by Meta. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 61.3% across 18 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM-8K (CoT) (84.5%), ARC-C (83.4%), API-Bank (82.6%). It supports a 262K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 9 API providers. Released in 2024, it represents Meta's latest advancement in AI technology.

Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta

2024-07-23

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct

Moonshot AI

2025-01-01

5 months newer

Pricing Comparison

Cost per million tokens (USD)

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct

Input:$0.57
Output:$2.29
Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

$2.80 cheaper
Input:$0.03
Output:$0.03

Performance Metrics

Context window and performance specifications

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct

Max Context:144.0K
Parameters:1.0T
Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Larger context
Max Context:262.1K
Parameters:8.0B

Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct

+25.5%
Average Score:85.8%
Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Average Score:60.2%

Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct

reasoning
+5.6%
89.0%
math
+18.2%
86.6%
code
+13.7%
79.5%
general
+8.0%
62.0%
Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

reasoning
83.4%
math
68.4%
code
65.8%
general
54.0%
Benchmark Scores - Detailed View
Side-by-side comparison of all benchmark scores
Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

2023-12-31

More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks

Provider Availability & Performance

Available providers and their performance metrics

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct

1 providers

Novita

Throughput: 45 tok/s
Latency: 0.95ms
Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

9 providers

Sambanova

Throughput: 1050 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

Together

Throughput: 194 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

Hyperbolic

Throughput: 200 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

DeepInfra

Throughput: 118 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

Fireworks

Throughput: 292 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

Groq

Throughput: 750 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

Bedrock

Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

Lambda

Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

Cerebras

Throughput: 2047 tok/s
Latency: 0.2ms
Moonshot AI

Kimi K2 Instruct

+25.5%
Avg Score:85.8%
Providers:1
Meta

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Avg Score:60.2%
Providers:9