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MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra wins on more metrics (6 of 8), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K3OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Intelligence Index57.155.0
Coding Index76.276.7
GPQA Diamond94%93%
Design Arena Elo1290
Speed (tokens/sec)61
Latency3.0s
Input price /M$3.00$2.50
Output price /M$15.00$15.00
Context window1.0M1.1M
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVision