Model comparison
GPT-4o vs Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 1 category and Kimi K2.6 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.6 leads 57.0 to 10.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 6.4% for GPT-4o and 96.1% for Kimi K2.6.
- Kimi K2.6 is cheaper at $0.95 / $4 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
- Kimi K2.6 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Kimi K2.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.6 | 47.7 |
| Released | 2024-05-13 | 2026-04-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 262K |
| Max output | 16K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.95 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $4 |
| Results tracked | 72 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2.6 leads
GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 31% | 76.7% |
| WeirdML | 25.1% | 55.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1297 | 1488 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 45.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1509 |
| SciCode | — | 53.5% |
| GSO | 0% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 51.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.1% | — |
| CadEval | 26% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,093 |
| HumanEval+ | 87.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 4.6% |
| GDPval | 9.9% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 8.6% | — |
| Cybench | 12.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.3% | — |
| ExploitBench | — | 18.4% |
| GBAEval | — | 0.9% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 12% |
| LMArena Search | 1006 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 40.8% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 6,205 |
Reasoning Kimi K2.6 leads
GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 8% |
| Chess Puzzles | 13% | 26% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 1470 |
| DTBench | 64.5% | 90.9% |
| LMCA | 16.6% | 37.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.97 | 151.05 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 17.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 87.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| EBR-Bench | — | 2.4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 55.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 18% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 55.3% | — |
Math Kimi K2.6 leads
GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.4% | 57.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.4% | 96.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1285 | 1475 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | 39% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 25.6% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 72.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 16% |
| Omni-MATH | 29.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 49.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 53.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 14.6% |
Knowledge Kimi K2.6 leads
GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.2% | 90.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 26% | 34.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.6% | 10.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1250 | 1491 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 2.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 71.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52% | — |
| MMLU | 88.1% | — |
Multimodal GPT-4o leads
GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1137 | 1283 |
| Video-MME | 71.9% | — |
| GeoBench | 71% | — |
| VPCT | 40% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 3.9% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 21.7% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1451 |
| ScienceQA | 88.5% | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2.6 leads
GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1446 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1521 |
| LMArena French | 1304 | 1471 |
| LMArena German | 1282 | 1450 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1257 | 1443 |
| LMArena Korean | 1234 | 1427 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1446 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1292 | 1464 |
Instruction Following Kimi K2.6 leads
GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1278 | 1451 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 68.6% | — |
| IFEval | 81.7% | — |
Long Context Kimi K2.6 leads
GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | 1468 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads
GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1300 | 1455 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1434 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1302 | 1453 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1725 |
| WildBench | 82.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1202 |
| LiveBench Language | 47.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4o better than Kimi K2.6?
Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o or Kimi K2.6?
Kimi K2.6 is cheaper. It lists at $0.95 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is GPT-4o or Kimi K2.6 better for coding?
Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Kimi K2.6 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Kimi K2.6 share?
31 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.6 has 51.