Kimi K2 vs Llama 4 Maverick: Best Open-Weights for Production

Kimi K2Llama 4 Maverick
arenaElo13841322
humanEval90.182
sweBench65.845
mmlu89.185.1
gpqa64.754.3
aime7060
Price in/out ($/M)$0.5 / $2$0.35 / $1.4

Our verdict

Kimi K2 is sharper on reasoning and coding; Maverick has a stronger vision pipeline and a larger Western developer community. For APAC products and text-heavy agents, Kimi. For vision and English-first SaaS, Maverick.

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