The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ·DeepSeek vs Moonshot AI

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B profile MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B — DeepSeek
Quality
#41 of 61
52based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#263 of 316
24.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#176 of 340
$0.80
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.80 · Out $0.80
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
#338 of 345
8k
tokens (~13 pages)
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — Moonshot AI
Quality
#7 of 61
93based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#112 of 316
66.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#211 of 340
$1.16
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.65 · Out $2.72
Cache hit price
#99 of 206
$0.11
per 1M tokens (−83%)
Context
#172 of 345
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B scores 52 and MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 scores 93 — a 40-point lead for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B ahead on 0 and MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $0.80 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and $1.16 for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B is about 1.5× cheaper.

Throughput is 24 tokens per second for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and 66 for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6, with time to first token at 0.8s and 1.1s. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B accepts 8k tokens of context against 262k.

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 21 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 26 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Known Good Index 52 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.80 $1.16
Output tok/s 24 66
Context window 8k 262k
Providers 1 21
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Known Good Index 52 93
Mathematics Index 71 96
Science Index 52 95
Reasoning Index 59 —
Agentic Index — 87
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B · marker = MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond56 / 91
MATH / AIME51 / 96

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B / MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B leads on 0 of 2, MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 on 2.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Text Arena — 1,455
Text Arena (style controlled) — 1,461
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Input $/1M $0.80 $0.65
Output $/1M $0.80 $2.72
Blended $/1M $0.80 $1.16
Cache read $/1M — $0.109
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Context window 8k 262k
Max output tokens 8k 262k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Output tokens/s 24 66
Time to first token 0.8s 1.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

21 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B blendedDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B tok/s MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 blendedMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 tok/s
Novita $0.80 27 $1.45 36
CoreWeave — — $1.34 239
Together — — $2.02 166
Decart — — $1.35 129
Fireworks — — $1.71 111
ModelRun — — $1.38 110
DeepInfra — — $1.44 65
Crusoe — — $1.40 63
Venice — — $1.44 63
Cloudflare — — $1.71 56
DigitalOcean — — $1.37 52
Chutes — — $1.37 47
SiliconFlow — — $1.43 47
Phala — — $1.97 46
Parasail — — $1.44 45
Inceptron — — $1.30 37
Moonshot AI · first party — — $1.71 37
StreamLake — — $1.54 36
Baidu · first party — — $1.16 33
AtlasCloud — — $1.71 32
BaseTen — — $1.71 —

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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