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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 wins on more metrics (5 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: GPT-5.4
Intelligence Index51.4
Coding Index38.457.2
GPQA Diamond79%92%
Design Arena Elo13601301
Speed (tokens/sec)15159
Latency348ms933ms
Input price /M$0.680$2.50
Output price /M$3.41$15.00
Context window262K1.1M
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVision