Meta LLaMA 4 Maverick vs Moonshot AI Kimi K2 — side-by-side specs.
Meta LLaMA 4 Maverick | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Meta | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Apr 5 2025 | Jul 11 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 1T |
Context window | — | 128k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | — | 65.8% |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 75.1% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | LLaMA 4 Maverick shipped 97 days before Kimi K2 | |
LLaMA 4 Maverick and Kimi K2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. LLaMA 4 Maverick shipped 97 days before Kimi K2, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — LLaMA 4 Maverick and Kimi K2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.