Kimi K2 Thinkingvsgpt-oss-20b
Kimi K2 Thinking | gpt-oss-20b | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
ParametersA rough measure of how big the model is. More parameters usually means more capable and more expensive to run, though it is a poor guide on its own — a smaller, newer model often beats a larger, older one. | 1T | 21B |
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | 256k | 128k |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page. | $0.60Google | $0.03CoreWeave |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | $2.50Google | $0.13CoreWeave |
| Benchmarks | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real 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. | 71.3% | 60.7% |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
Humanity's Last Exam · no toolsMultidisciplinary reasoning — Humanity's Last Exam — extremely hard expert questions across many subjects, written so you can't just look up the answer. “No tools” means the AI answers on its own. Higher is better. | — | 10.9% |
Humanity's Last Exam · with toolsMultidisciplinary reasoning — Humanity'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. | — | 17.3% |
GPQA DiamondScience — Graduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 71.5% |
MMLUGeneral knowledge — A 57-subject multiple-choice exam — history, law, medicine, maths — that was the standard measure of how much a model knows from 2020 until roughly 2024, when frontier scores crowded into the high 80s and labs moved on to harder tests. The scores here were published years apart under different testing setups, so read them as a historical record rather than a like-for-like ranking. Higher is better. | — | 85.3% |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | OpenAI |
| Release date | Nov 6 2025 | Aug 5 2025 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
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Frequently asked questions
Kimi K2 Thinking leads gpt-oss-20b on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (SWE-Bench Verified). gpt-oss-20b shipped 93 days before Kimi K2 Thinking, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi K2 Thinking has 1T parameters, while gpt-oss-20b has 21B. Context windows are 256k (Kimi K2 Thinking) vs 128k (gpt-oss-20b).
On SWE-Bench Verified, Kimi K2 Thinking leads at 71.3% vs gpt-oss-20b at 60.7%.
Kimi K2 Thinking was released by Moonshot AI on Nov 6 2025.
gpt-oss-20b was released by OpenAI on Aug 5 2025.
Kimi K2 Thinking leads on SWE-Bench Verified — Kimi K2 Thinking 71.3% vs gpt-oss-20b 60.7%.
Kimi K2 Thinking has a 256k context window; gpt-oss-20b has 128k.