Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 4.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 65.9K more tokens in context window than Kimi K2 Instruct. Kimi K2 Instruct is $15.13 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model, capable of producing near-instant responses or extended step-by-step thinking that is visible to users. Developed with particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development, it allows users to control thinking budgets and balances real-world task performance with reasoning capabilities for enterprise applications.
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.
4 months newer

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Kimi K2 Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 7 common benchmarks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Kimi K2 Instruct
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Kimi K2 Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Kimi K2 Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Kimi K2 Instruct

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita