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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 wins on more metrics (6 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex
Intelligence Index42.943.1
Coding Index38.436.6
GPQA Diamond79%86%
Design Arena Elo13621218
Speed (tokens/sec)13739
Latency356ms2.4s
Input price /M$0.680$1.25
Output price /M$3.41$10.00
Context window262K400K
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVision