Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 Instruct leads with 10.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 137.9K more tokens in context window than Kimi K2 Instruct. Kimi K2 Instruct is $87.13 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Overall, Kimi K2 Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Kimi K2, designed to follow user instructions reliably across diverse tasks. Built to serve general-purpose conversational and task-completion applications, it provides Moonshot's accessible interface for language AI.
1 year newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Kimi K2 Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Kimi K2 Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Kimi K2 Instruct

Claude 3 Opus

Kimi K2 Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita