Kimi K2 Thinking vs Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Compare Kimi K2 Thinking by Moonshot AI against Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) by Meta AI, context windows of 262K vs 128K, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi K2 Thinking
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Kimi K2 Thinking has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) is 3.2x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Kimi K2 Thinking
Input
$0.60
Output
$2.50
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Input
$0.59
Output
$0.79
3.2× cheaper
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) is cheaper on both 3.2× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
63%
Kimi K2 Thinking uses 56.4x more headings
Kimi K2 Thinking
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
57%Vocabulary51%
26wSentence Length18w
0.36Hedging0.46
5.8Bold3.4
6.0Lists5.6
0.00Emoji0.00
0.56Headings0.00
0.06Transitions0.06
Based on 14 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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