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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Kimi K2 0711

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.5 wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · reasoning.

Category leads
coding·Claude Opus 4.5reasoning·Claude Opus 4.5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.5
#197 by perf·#5 by attention
OVERHYPED
Kimi K2 0711
#81 by perf·#15 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
14.4x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
2.7 pts/$
$15.00/M
Kimi K2 0711
39.1 pts/$
$1.43/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
moonshotai logo
Moonshot AI
$50.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.5Kimi K2 0711
GSO-Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +21.6
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
Claude Opus 4.5
26.5
Kimi K2 0711
4.9
SimpleBench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +42.8
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude Opus 4.5
54.4
Kimi K2 0711
11.6
Terminal Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +35.3
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency.
Claude Opus 4.5
63.1
Kimi K2 0711
27.8
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +24.4
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4.5
63.7
Kimi K2 0711
39.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Kimi K2 0711
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
26.54.9
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
54.411.6
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency.
63.127.8
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
63.739.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.5$5.00$25.00200K tokens (~100 books)$100.00
moonshotai logoKimi K2 0711$0.57$2.30131K tokens (~66 books)$10.03