Model Comparison

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Comparing Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

926.6B diff

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 has 926.6B more parameters than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct, making it 1262.4% larger.

Moonshot AI
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905
1000.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
73.4Bparameters
1000.0B
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905
73.4B
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 does not.

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 is licensed under MIT, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

MIT

Open weights

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 was released on 2025-09-05, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 is 12 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

Sep 5, 2025

7 months ago

1.0yr newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while Kimi K2-Instruct-0905's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct's training data extends to 2023-06-30, but cannot make a direct comparison without Kimi K2-Instruct-0905's cutoff date.

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Moonshot AI
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Supports multimodal inputs

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 (Moonshot AI) and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) each have strengths in different areas. Compare their benchmark scores, pricing, context windows, and capabilities above to determine which fits your needs.
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 scores MATH-500: 97.4%, MMLU-Redux: 92.7%, IFEval: 89.8%, AutoLogi: 89.5%, MMLU: 89.5%. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct scores DocVQAtest: 96.5%, VCR_en_easy: 91.9%, ChartQA: 88.3%, OCRBench: 87.7%, MMBench_test: 86.5%.
Key differences include multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 is developed by Moonshot AI and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.