Side-by-side comparison of Kimi K2 Instruct (Moonshot AI · China) and Llama 3.1 405B (Meta · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Kimi K2 Instruct is rated conditional; Llama 3.1 405B is conditional. They part ways on licence: Kimi K2 Instruct is "Modified MIT", Llama 3.1 405B is "Llama community".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional 1T-parameter MoE (32B active) tuned for agentic and tool-use workflows. Modified MIT permits commercial use. Same Chinese-origin alignment and supply-chain considerations as DeepSeek and Qwen. | Conditional Frontier-class 405B open model. Self-hosting requires serious compute (8×H100 minimum at FP8). Same Llama community licence caveats as the rest of the family. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Modified MIT | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Yes | With caps |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 26/100 | 17/100 |
| Speed | 34 tok/s | 31 tok/s |
| Blended price | $1.04/M | $3.69/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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