Qwen3.5-4B vs Kimi-K2.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 July 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.7 B
Context
—
30d
5.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
moonshotai · B · Open weights
Params
1,058.6 B
Context
—
30d
804 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.5-4B Kimi-K2.5
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 4.7 B 1,058.6 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 256,000
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,274,172 803,810
Downloads all time 57.2 M 15.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2026-01-01
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.53
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $3.33
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $3.86
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.21
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 46.8
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 65,536
API providers not on OpenRouter 5
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Kimi-K2.5 $3.86

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

8.1 M804 K
Qwen3.5-4B Kimi-K2.5

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.5-4B · fp16 11.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Kimi-K2.5 · fp16 814.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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