Kimi Linear and Kimi-VL don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Kimi-VL shipped 183 days before Kimi Linear, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi Linear has 48B parameters, while Kimi-VL has 16B.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Kimi Linear and Kimi-VL don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.