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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Kimi Linear

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
Moonshot AI
Kimi Linear
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMoonshot AI
Release dateOct 15 2025Oct 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
48B
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
73%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
73.3%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapKimi Linear shipped 14 days before Claude Haiku 4.5

Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or Kimi Linear?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads Kimi Linear on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Kimi Linear shipped 14 days before Claude Haiku 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Haiku 4.5 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 Haiku 4.5 released?
Claude Haiku 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Oct 15 2025.
When was Kimi Linear released?
Kimi Linear was released by Moonshot AI on Oct 2025.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Kimi Linear open source?
Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. Claude Haiku 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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