The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
claude-opus-4-1-20250805 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ·Anthropic vs Moonshot AI

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — head-to-head comparison

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claude-opus-4-1-20250805 — Anthropic
Quality
#42 of 61
49based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
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, claude-opus-4-1-20250805 scores 49 and MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 scores 93 — a 44-point lead for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. They share 3 published evaluations, with claude-opus-4-1-20250805 ahead on 0 and MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ahead on 3.

Published pricing is tracked for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 only, at $1.16 per 1M tokens blended.

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 is proprietary; MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 21 tracked hosts serve one or both.

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

At a glance
Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Known Good Index 49 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.16
Output tok/s 66
Context window 262k
Providers 0 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.

Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Known Good Index 49 93
Coding Index 60
Mathematics Index 40 96
Science Index 74 95
Reasoning Index 43
Agentic Index 60 87
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = claude-opus-4-1-20250805 · marker = MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond73 / 91
MATH / AIME40 / 96
SWE-bench Verified73 / 77

Right-hand figures read claude-opus-4-1-20250805 / MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. claude-opus-4-1-20250805 leads on 0 of 3, MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 on 3.

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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.

Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Text Arena 1,417 1,455
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,447 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.

Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Input $/1M $0.65
Output $/1M $2.72
Blended $/1M $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.

Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Context window 262k
Max output tokens 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.

Metricclaude-opus-4-1-20250805MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Output tokens/s 66
Time to first token 1.1s
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Providers

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

21 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider claude-opus-4-1-20250805 blendedclaude-opus-4-1-20250805 tok/s MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 blendedMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 tok/s
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
Novita $1.45 36
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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