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Claude Sonnet 5.5vs
Kimi K2.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
6 – 0
Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 5.5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · Moonshot AI
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic · released 2026-09-28
textvision
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI · released 2026-01-27
textvisionvideo
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
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- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 26 · 14 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
6 shared · 23 only Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 20 only Kimi K2.5| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 6 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1471 ↗ | 1450.1 ↗ | +20.9 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LMArena Vision (LMArena) | 1268.3 ↗ | 1252.2 ↗ | +16.1 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1786.3 ↗ | 1435.8 ↗ | +350.5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 51.8% ↗ | 49.9% ↗ | +1.9 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 75.9% ↗ | 46.8% ↗ | +29.1 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% ↗epoch run | 34.3% ↗epoch run | +12.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 reports · 23 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 75.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Chartography (no tools) | 61.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 55.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | 46.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 80.5% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 88.8% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs) | 61.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run) | 75% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 64.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench) | 56.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 91.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 78.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 70.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 83.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 96.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 91.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.1252 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 65% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld 2.1 (partial) | 80.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 100% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 70.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 64.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Kimi K2.5 reports · 20 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 76.8% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 87.1% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 96.1% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp | not reported | 60.6% ↗ | — | — |
| GPQA-Diamond | not reported | 87.6% ↗ | — | — |
| HLE-Full | not reported | 30.1% ↗ | — | — |
| HLE-Full (w/ tools) | not reported | 50.2% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT 2025 (Feb) | not reported | 95.4% ↗ | — | — |
| IMO-AnswerBench | not reported | 81.8% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench (v6) | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | not reported | 78.5% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified (XLANG) | not reported | 63.3% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Multilingual | not reported | 73% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | not reported | 50.7% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 73.8% ↗epoch run | — | — |
| Terminal Bench 2.0 | not reported | 50.8% ↗ | — | — |
| Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST) | not reported | 33% ↗ | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | not reported | 1198.46 ↗ | — | — |
| VideoMMMU | not reported | 86.6% ↗ | — | — |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | not reported | 45.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 5.5 minus Kimi K2.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Kimi K2.5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 256K tokens | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision · video | Kimi K2.5 |
| Released | 2026-09-28 | 2026-01-27 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 29 | 26 | — |
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