Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 4.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K1.5 was developed by Moonshot AI as an advanced language model with extended context capabilities, designed to handle long documents and conversations. Built to excel at tasks requiring comprehension of extensive information, it represents Moonshot's approach to long-context language understanding.
4 months newer

Kimi-k1.5
Moonshot AI
2025-01-20

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

Kimi-k1.5
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Kimi-k1.5

Claude Sonnet 4

Kimi-k1.5

Kimi-k1.5