Comparing 2 models

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Kimi K2.6

Facts first, then task-specific rankings. A highlighted cell is better only for that row, not universally.

metric
Model 1Claude Opus 4.5
Model 2Kimi K2.6
Best for
Agentic Coding (#1)
Document Parsing (#4)
Provider
anthropic
moonshotai
Context
200K
262KBest
Input / 1M
$5
$0.68Best
Output / 1M
$25
$3.42Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
yesBest
Released
Nov 24, 2025
Apr 20, 2026