Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek and Kimi K2 Turbo Preview from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Kimi K2 Turbo PreviewDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 is DeepSeek's efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts text model, designed for fast inference and workflows requiring tool use, function calling, and structured outputs. It features 284B total parameters with 13B activated parameters and supports a 1M-token context window with cost-effective pricing.
The kimi-k2-turbo-preview model is a high-speed version of kimi-k2, with the same model parameters as kimi-k2, but the output speed has been increased from 10 tokens per second to 40 tokens per second.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.928/M output tokens; Kimi K2 Turbo Preview: $4.8/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek V4 Flash: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V4 Flash at 59.0 tok/s and Kimi K2 Turbo Preview at 19.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Kimi K2 Turbo Preview accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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