# Kimi K2.7

18 Hacker News commenters recommended Kimi K2.7 and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for strong coding and bug finding at a low cost compared with other models. Critics say it needs more guidance and uses many tokens.

## Why people recommend it

- Strong coding and bug finding (5 comments): "the new Kimi K2.7 is looking extremely good, very little doubt it could do it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541820)) "The review catches things humans and two paid options miss." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49703111)) "Kimi K2.7 is very good - i have been testing it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547481))
- Preferred over other models (4 comments): "KimiK2.6/2.7, MiMoV2.5/MiMoV2.5-Pro and GLM5.1 will wreck Qwen3.6-27B any day on any task." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569991)) "I also have been preferring kimik2.7 more than GLM5.2." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928283)) "Kimi K2.5, 2.7 and Deepseek v4 were among my favorites" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014997))
- Cost-effective performance (2 comments): "shows the previous generation of open models (Kimi K2.7) trading blows with the others, cost effectively." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986390)) "given the cost/performance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936180))
- Runs well at 4-bit (2 comments): "K2 2.7 is quite literally designed for 4 bit quantization and runs even better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682110)) "If you're resourceful, you can even run SOTA models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557431))

## What people warn about

- Slow and uses many tokens (2 comments): "Kimi K2.7 takes about 7x longer to finish the same benchmark tasks as DeepSeek V4 Pro" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668297)) "it uses a lot of tokens for quite simple tasks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939478))
- Gets lost on simple tasks (2 comments): "2.7 also gets totally lost on tasks Sonnet and Opus has no problems with" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941041)) "It would run in circles for things that Claude would do in one shot." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759928))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Qwen 3.8 27B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-3-8-27b.md): 1173 recommend
- [Z.ai GLM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/glm-5-2.md): 1043 recommend
- [Kimi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kimi-k3.md): 931 recommend
- [Gemma 4](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemma-4.md): 713 recommend
- [Qwen](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen.md): 474 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Kimi K2.7", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kimi-k2-7/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).