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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

anthropic logoAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5VSmoonshotai logoMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6moonshotai/kimi-k2.6

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 wins on more metrics (5 of 8), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Intelligence Index53.4✓42.8
Coding Index71.5✓56.0
GPQA Diamond91%91%
Design Arena Elo13301355✓
Speed (tokens/sec)73154✓
Latency2.5s355ms✓
Input price /M$2.00$0.660✓
Output price /M$10.00$3.41✓
Context window1M✓262K
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVision
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