Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. GPT-5.1 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-5 family that delivers incremental improvements in reasoning, instruction following, and multimodal understanding over GPT-5. It features a 400K token context window and targets general-purpose development, long-context analysis, and agentic workflows.
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.
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GPT-5.1
OpenAI
2025-11
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI
2026-01
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Kimi K2.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
GPT-5.1
Kimi K2.5
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5.1
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI
GPT-5.1
Kimi K2.5
GPT-5.1
Kimi K2.5