Claude Opus 4.6 vs Kimi K2 Thinking
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 Thinking | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Feb 5 2026 | Nov 6 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 1T |
Context window | — | 256k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 87% | — |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 80.8%Best | 71.3% |
Next.js coding Next.js EvalsVercel's open eval of how well AI coding agents build and migrate real Next.js apps — measured as the share of tasks the agent completes successfully. Higher is better. | 75% | — |
Web browsing BrowseCompCan the AI browse the web and track down hard-to-find answers? Higher is better. | 83.7% | — |
Multidisciplinary reasoning Humanity's Last Exam · with toolsHumanity's Last Exam — extremely hard expert questions across many subjects. “With tools” means the AI is allowed to search the web or run code while answering. Higher is better. | 53% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 91.3% | — |
Community preference Arena Elo (Text)Real people chat with two anonymous AIs side by side and vote for the answer they prefer. Votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai — it measures which AI people actually like, not test scores. Higher is better. | 1504 | — |
Community preference (code) Arena Elo (Code)Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | 1543 | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Kimi K2 Thinking shipped 91 days before Claude Opus 4.6 | |
Which is better: Claude Opus 4.6 or Kimi K2 Thinking?
Claude Opus 4.6 leads Kimi K2 Thinking on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (SWE-Bench Verified). Kimi K2 Thinking shipped 91 days before Claude Opus 4.6, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Claude Opus 4.6 is proprietary, while Kimi K2 Thinking is open weight.
On SWE-Bench Verified, Claude Opus 4.6 leads at 80.8% vs Kimi K2 Thinking at 71.3%.
Frequently asked questions
Claude Opus 4.6 was released by Anthropic on Feb 5 2026.
Kimi K2 Thinking was released by Moonshot AI on Nov 6 2025.
Claude Opus 4.6 leads on SWE-Bench Verified — Claude Opus 4.6 80.8% vs Kimi K2 Thinking 71.3%.
Claude Opus 4.6 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Kimi K2 Thinking is an open weight model released by Moonshot AI.
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