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Kimi K2.6 vs Llama 3.1 405B

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Winner summary

Kimi K2.6 wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · math.

Category leads
general·Kimi K2.6knowledge·Kimi K2.6math·Kimi K2.6coding·Kimi K2.6
Hype vs Reality
Kimi K2.6
#205 by perf·#17 by attention
QUIET
Llama 3.1 405B
#206 by perf·no signal
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Best value
Kimi K2.6
15.5 pts/$
$2.48/M
Llama 3.1 405B
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
moonshotai logo
Moonshot AI
$18.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.87T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Kimi K2.6Llama 3.1 405B
Dtbench
Kimi K2.6 leads by +49.2
Kimi K2.6
84.9
Llama 3.1 405B
35.6
GPQA diamond
Kimi K2.6 leads by +53.2
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Kimi K2.6
87.7
Llama 3.1 405B
34.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Kimi K2.6 leads by +86.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Kimi K2.6
96.1
Llama 3.1 405B
9.6
WeirdML
Kimi K2.6 leads by +34.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Kimi K2.6
55.9
Llama 3.1 405B
21.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Llama 3.1 405B
Dtbench
84.935.6
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
87.734.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
96.19.6
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
55.921.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
moonshotai logoKimi K2.6$0.95$4.00262K tokens (~131 books)$17.13
Meta logoLlama 3.1 405B————
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