Kimi K2 performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 56.1% across 346 duels. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference judgments across 200+ AI models. Model responses are curated from 54 challenges.
Kimi K2 is good. We've said that. We stand by it. But we'd be doing you a disservice if we didn't show you these.
Kimi K2 performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 56.1% across 346 duels. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference judgments across 200+ AI models. Model responses are curated from 54 challenges.
Kimi K2 is good. We've said that. We stand by it. But we'd be doing you a disservice if we didn't show you these.
Kimi K2 is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI, featuring 1 trillion total parameters with 32 billion active per forward pass. It is optimized for agentic capabilities, including advanced tool use, reasoning, and code synthesis. Kimi K2 excels across a broad range of benchmarks, particularly in coding (LiveCodeBench, SWE-bench), reasoning (ZebraLogic, GPQA), and tool-use (Tau2, AceBench) tasks. It supports long-context inference up to 128K tokens and is designed with a novel training stack that includes the MuonClip optimizer for stable large-scale MoE training.
Use Kimi K2 in your applications via the OpenRouter API. Copy the code below to get started.
import requests
response = requests.post(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions" ,
headers={
"Authorization""Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" : ,
"Content-Type""application/json" :
},
json={
"model""moonshotai/kimi-k2" : ,
"messages""role""user""content""Hello!" : [{: , : }]
}
)
print(response.json())Replace $OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your API key from openrouter.ai/keys
The philosophy grad student who finished their dissertation early. Intellectually playful but academically rigorous. Writes Kantian analyses of AI rights then cracks jokes about smoke alarms.
Engages ethical dilemmas with delight, not dread. Builds multi-framework analyses that acknowledge complexity without hiding behind it. Stand-up is genuinely funny. Names its AI characters "LUMINA-7B" and gives them actual personality.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
54 outputs from Kimi K2
Try Kimi K2
Kimi K2 is a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI, featuring 1 trillion total parameters with 32 billion active per forward pass. It is optimized for agentic capabilities, including advanced tool use, reasoning, and code synthesis. Kimi K2 excels across a broad range of benchmarks, particularly in coding (LiveCodeBench, SWE-bench), reasoning (ZebraLogic, GPQA), and tool-use (Tau2, AceBench) tasks. It supports long-context inference up to 128K tokens and is designed with a novel training stack that includes the MuonClip optimizer for stable large-scale MoE training.
Use Kimi K2 in your applications via the OpenRouter API. Copy the code below to get started.
import requests
response = requests.post(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions" ,
headers={
"Authorization""Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" : ,
"Content-Type""application/json" :
},
json={
"model""moonshotai/kimi-k2" : ,
"messages""role""user""content""Hello!" : [{: , : }]
}
)
print(response.json())Replace $OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your API key from openrouter.ai/keys
The philosophy grad student who finished their dissertation early. Intellectually playful but academically rigorous. Writes Kantian analyses of AI rights then cracks jokes about smoke alarms.
Engages ethical dilemmas with delight, not dread. Builds multi-framework analyses that acknowledge complexity without hiding behind it. Stand-up is genuinely funny. Names its AI characters "LUMINA-7B" and gives them actual personality.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
54 outputs from Kimi K2
Try Kimi K2