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Claude Opus 4.1 vs Kimi-Dev

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1
Moonshot AI
Kimi-Dev
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMoonshot AI
Release dateAug 5 2025Jun 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
72B
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
80.9%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
74.5%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapKimi-Dev shipped 65 days before Claude Opus 4.1

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.1 or Kimi-Dev?

Claude Opus 4.1 leads Kimi-Dev on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Kimi-Dev shipped 65 days before Claude Opus 4.1, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi-Dev is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Opus 4.1 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 Opus 4.1 released?
Claude Opus 4.1 was released by Anthropic on Aug 5 2025.
When was Kimi-Dev released?
Kimi-Dev was released by Moonshot AI on Jun 2025.
Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Kimi-Dev open source?
Kimi-Dev is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. Claude Opus 4.1 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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