3 vs 0 benchmarks won
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 (0905) | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Sep 29 2025 | Sep 5 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 1T |
Context window | — | 256k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | 83.4% | 75.1% |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | 77.2% | 65.8% |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | 68% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Kimi K2 (0905) shipped 24 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5 | |
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads Kimi K2 (0905) on 3 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Kimi K2 (0905) shipped 24 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi K2 (0905) is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary.
On GPQA Diamond, Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores 83.4%, 8.3 points above Kimi K2 (0905) at 75.1%. On SWE-Bench Verified, Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores 77.2%, 11.4 points above Kimi K2 (0905) at 65.8%.