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πŸ• Is Kimi K2 Actually Better Than Claude Sonnet 4 for Coding? βœ¨πŸ€”

Shrijal Acharya on July 23, 2025

Moonshot AI (a Chinese Artificial Intelligence company) recently announced their new AI model, Kimi K2, which is an open-source model purposely bui...
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Bhaskar Prajapati

Love this comparison. I wonder if this is an alternative to general gpt models?

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

I can't say it yet with K2, but Sonnet 4 really is an alternative to general GPT models if you're referring to a model that's fairly good with most general tasks.

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Shayne Villarin

No, none of it is the alternative to gpt models.

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Why do you feel so?

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Shayne Villarin

Just my preference

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Bhaskar Prajapati

Okay, that's fine

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Let me know your thoughts on Kimi K2 and how the experience has been with it so far.

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Aayush Pokharel

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Thanks

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Aavash Parajuli

Congratulations on the agentic funding! I love the work of this team. πŸ‘πŸΌ

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Thank you. Lot more to come in the future from Composio. Stay tuned!

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Robert Thomas

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Jim Parson

Really curious to see how Kimi K2 performs on multi-agent workflows over time

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Let's see how good it turns out to be in the long run

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Robert Thomas

nice

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Thanks, Robert! ✌️

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Great article! There's something I would like to point out about this:

Kimi K2 has a very low output of tokens per second, around 34.1, significantly slower than Claude Sonnet 4, which is around 91.3.

Kimi K2 is an open-source model, which means that there are multiple providers for it, not just one like Claude. You can get the same Kimi K2 model at over 200 tokens per second (for free!) on Groq and at increased speeds on other AI model providers as well.

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Yes, you're right. But, it comes with heavy model quantization, which speeds up the model at a cost of model quality.