Side-by-side comparison of Kimi K2 Instruct (Moonshot AI · China) and MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi (MiMo)) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Kimi K2 Instruct is rated conditional; MiMo-V2.5 is conditional. They part ways on licence: Kimi K2 Instruct is "Modified MIT", MiMo-V2.5 is "MIT".
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| 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 MiMo-V2.5 is the omnimodal sibling of MiMo-V2.5-Pro — text, vision, audio, and video on a single sparse-MoE backbone, also under MIT. Same posture as the Pro: deployable weights, but the China origin and stage-level training disclosure mean any EU rollout needs self-hosting plus a deployer-prepared GPAI compliance file, with extra attention to Article 50 transparency for synthetic and biometric outputs. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Modified MIT | MIT |
| Commercial use | Yes | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Categories only |
| Origin | China | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 26/100 | 49/100 |
| Speed | 34 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $1.04/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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