Kimi K2 vs. DeepSeek V3 0324
Comparison between Kimi K2 and DeepSeek V3 0324 across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.
For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.
| Intelligence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 13* | 10 | |
| AA-Briefcase | 92 | ||
| GDPval-AA v2 | 275 | ||
| AutomationBench-AA | 0% | ||
| Terminal-Bench v4.0 | 0% | ||
| SciCode | 39% | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7% | 5% | |
| GDP.pdf | 2% | ||
| CritPt | 0% | 0% | |
| AA-Omniscience | −28 | −41 | |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 53% | 41% | |
| Cost | |||
| Price per 1M Tokens | $0.743 | $0.8412 | |
| Input Price per 1M Tokens | $0.57 | $0.845 | |
| Output Price per 1M Tokens | $2.30 | $1.175 | |
| Cache Hit Price per 1M Tokens | $0.7925 | ||
| Cost per Task | $0.11 | ||
| Cost to Run Intelligence Index | $87 | ||
| Token Use | |||
| Output Tokens per Task | 2k | ||
| Reasoning Tokens per Task | 0 | ||
| Output Tokens to Run Intelligence Index | 4M | ||
| Performance | |||
| Output Speed | 40 tokens/s | ||
| Time to First Token | 1.67s | ||
| Time to First Answer Token | 1.67s | ||
| End-to-End Response Time | 14.12s | ||
| Technical specifications | |||
| Context Window | 128k tokens~192 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | 128k tokens~192 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | |
| Release Date | July 2025 | March 2025 | |
| Total parameters | 1T | 671B | |
| Active parameters | 32B | 37B | |
| Reasoning | No | No | |
| Input modality | Supports: text | Supports: text | |
| Output modality | Supports: text | Supports: text | |
| Open Source (Weights) | |||
| License | |||
| License Supports Commercial Use Without Restrictions | Yes | Yes | |
* Estimated
Highlights
IntelligenceUpdated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic coding & terminal use
Coding
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Physics reasoning
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Long context reasoning
Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate
Agentic business operations
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Instruction following
Agentic tool use
Long-horizon agentic tasks
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Visual reasoning
AA-Briefcase
AA-Briefcase Elo
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Openness Index
Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Token Use
Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed
Time per Intelligence Index Task
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Latency: Time To First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Model Size (Open Weights Models Only)
Model Size: Total and Active Parameters
Frequently Asked Questions
Kimi K2 is more intelligent. Kimi K2 scores 13 (estimated), compared with DeepSeek V3 0324 at 10 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
Kimi K2 is cheaper. Kimi K2 costs $0.74 per 1M tokens, compared with DeepSeek V3 0324 at $0.84 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
Both models have a context window of 130k tokens.