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Claude 3 Sonnet vs Kimi K2 Thinking

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Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Thinking
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMoonshot AI
Release dateMar 4 2024Nov 6 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
1T
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
40.4%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
71.3%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapClaude 3 Sonnet shipped 612 days before Kimi K2 Thinking

Which is better: Claude 3 Sonnet or Kimi K2 Thinking?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Kimi K2 Thinking are evenly matched across the benchmarks they both publish. Claude 3 Sonnet shipped 612 days before Kimi K2 Thinking, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi K2 Thinking is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude 3 Sonnet is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude 3 Sonnet released?
Claude 3 Sonnet was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
When was Kimi K2 Thinking released?
Kimi K2 Thinking was released by Moonshot AI on Nov 6 2025.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Kimi K2 Thinking open source?
Kimi K2 Thinking is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. Claude 3 Sonnet is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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