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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Kimi Linear

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Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Moonshot AI
Kimi Linear
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMoonshot AI
Release dateOct 22 2024Oct 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
48B
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
41.6%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
40.6%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapClaude 3.5 Haiku shipped 344 days before Kimi Linear

Which is better: Claude 3.5 Haiku or Kimi Linear?

Claude 3.5 Haiku leads Kimi Linear on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Claude 3.5 Haiku shipped 344 days before Kimi Linear, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude 3.5 Haiku 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 3.5 Haiku released?
Claude 3.5 Haiku was released by Anthropic on Oct 22 2024.
When was Kimi Linear released?
Kimi Linear was released by Moonshot AI on Oct 2025.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Kimi Linear open source?
Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. Claude 3.5 Haiku is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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