Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Kimi K2.6 in 7 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.6 leads 40.5 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 96.1% for Kimi K2.6.
  • Kimi K2.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Kimi K2.6 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
ProviderAnthropicMoonshot AI
Noometry Index39.547.7
Released2025-02-242026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.95
Output $ / M tokens—$4
Results tracked5851

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
SWE-bench Verified61%76.7%
LMArena Coding13611488
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1509
SciCode—53.5%
GSO3.8%—
WeirdML—55.9%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—1,093

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
ExploitBench—18.4%
GBAEval—0.9%
GDP.pdf—12%
METR Time Horizons60%—
Vending-Bench 2—6,205

Reasoning Kimi K2.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
LMArena Hard Prompts13331470
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16151.05
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—87.2%
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
CritPt—8%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
EBR-Bench—2.4%
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—90.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—37.3%
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Kimi K2.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41)

Knowledge Kimi K2.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond79.7%90.8%
LMArena Expert13211491
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified—34.9%
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.8%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
LMArena Vision11691283
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—3.9%
Furniture Assembly—21.7%
LMArena Document—1451
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Kimi K2.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
LMArena Non-English12961446
LMArena Chinese12991521
LMArena French13031471
LMArena German13011450
LMArena Japanese12671443
LMArena Korean12491427
LMArena Russian13111446
LMArena Spanish12981464

Instruction Following Kimi K2.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
LMArena Instruction Following13521451
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
LMArena Longer Query13731468
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2.6
LMArena Text13141455
LMArena Creative Writing13321434
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14121725
LMArena Multi-Turn13391453
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
EQ-Bench 4—1202
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Kimi K2.6 better for coding?

Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Kimi K2.6 share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.6 has 51.

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