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Kimi K2 vs GPT-4o

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Moonshot AI
Kimi K2
OpenAI
GPT-4o
Overview
CompanyMoonshot AIOpenAI
Release dateJul 11 2025May 13 2024
Model type
Open sourceYesNo
Specifications
Parameters
1T
Context window
128k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
75.1%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
65.8%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapGPT-4o shipped 424 days before Kimi K2

Which is better: Kimi K2 or GPT-4o?

Kimi K2 leads GPT-4o on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). GPT-4o shipped 424 days before Kimi K2, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi K2 is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-4o is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Kimi K2 released?
Kimi K2 was released by Moonshot AI on Jul 11 2025.
When was GPT-4o released?
GPT-4o was released by OpenAI on May 13 2024.
Is Kimi K2 or GPT-4o open source?
Kimi K2 is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. GPT-4o is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.

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