Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Moonshot AI Kimi-VL — side-by-side specs.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Moonshot AI Kimi-VL | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Sep 29 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 16B |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
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. | 77.2% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 83.4% | — |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | 68% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Kimi-VL shipped 181 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5 | |
Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Kimi-VL don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Kimi-VL shipped 181 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi-VL is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Kimi-VL don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.