Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Kimi K2 leads with 2.5% higher average benchmark score. Kimi K2 offers 192 more tokens in context window than Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Kimi K2 is $14.90 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.7, released by Anthropic in February 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 3 family featuring hybrid reasoning with configurable extended thinking. It supports a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens (128K in beta), and native image understanding. Sonnet 3.7 targets complex coding, mathematics, and scientific reasoning tasks where extended chain-of-thought processing provides meaningful improvements in output quality.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2, released by Moonshot AI on July 11, 2025, is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window (expanded from 128K in an September 2025 update) and demonstrated strong performance on agentic coding benchmarks. Kimi K2 targets software engineering agents, tool-use workflows, and open-source deployments under a modified MIT license.
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Kimi K2
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
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Moonshot AI