Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Kimi K2.5

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Anthropic

Claude 3.5 Sonnet, updated by Anthropic in October 2024 (originally released June 2024), is a large language model from the Claude 3.5 family that delivered strong performance in coding, reasoning, and instruction-following at its release. It supports a 200K token context window, 8K maximum output tokens, and native image understanding including screenshot analysis and document comprehension. Claude 3.5 Sonnet targets general-purpose development tasks, document analysis, and applications requiring reliable instruction following with visual input support.

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2.5, released by Moonshot AI in January 2026, is an updated Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters. It builds on Kimi K2 with improved coding performance across multiple languages and an expanded context window. Kimi K2.5 targets agentic development workflows, polyglot code generation, and open-source deployments requiring large-scale MoE reasoning.