Kimi Linear and GPT-5.6 Terra don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Kimi Linear shipped 268 days before GPT-5.6 Terra, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi Linear is open weight, while GPT-5.6 Terra is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Kimi Linear and GPT-5.6 Terra don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.