Compare AI models: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Kimi K2.5

DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
Kimi K2.5MoonshotHollow points use fallbacks · hover for details

ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	100/100	100/100	64/100	81/100	33/100	92/100
Kimi K2.5	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	20/100	39/100	63/100	50/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark

Overview

Author

DeepSeek

Moonshot

Context length

262K

Reasoning

True

Input modalities

Text, Image

Text, Image, Video

Output modalities

Text

Providers

DeepSeek

Moonshot

Pricing

Input

$0.17/ 1M

$0.60/ 1M

Output

$0.70/ 1M

$3.00/ 1M

Cached input

$0.005/ 1M

$0.10/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

4.3M

1.7K

Completed sessions

114,366,256

12,531

Token share

40.7%

Tokens

502T+100%

0-100%

SEP 5OCT 30

No trend data

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

69.2%413K user-weeks

Pending

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