Model comparison
Kimi K2.6 vs Claude 4 Sonnet
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Kimi K2.6
Not scored
value score
Claude 4 Sonnet
91
value score
Kimi K2.6 ctx
—
Claude 4 Sonnet ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- Claude 4 Sonnet91
Attribute tape
| Field | Kimi K2.6 | Claude 4 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | ~moonshotai | Anthropic |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | Fast |
| Price | — | $3/1M in · $15/1M out |
| Value score | — | 91 |
| Summary | Kimi K2.6 is Moonshot AI's open-weight multimodal agentic foundation model built for long-horizon coding, tool use, and autonomous agent workflows. It supports text, image, and video inputs via a native vision encoder (MoonViT), features a 256K-token context window, and a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 1.04T total parameters and 32B active per forward pass. | Balanced Claude model for coding and agents. |