Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest vs MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest | MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~anthropic | ~moonshotai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | $0.16/M |
| Output Price | $0.50/M | $10.14/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 943,718 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Haiku Latest costs $0.23 and Kimi Latest costs $2.69, so Claude Haiku Latest is about 12.0 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,000,000 and 1,048,576 tokens, about 1,500 and 1,573 pages.
Only Kimi Latest offers video input.
Across the 10 tasks where they differ, Claude Haiku Latest scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).
Pick Claude Haiku Latest if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Kimi Latest if you need video input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest | MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 133 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 129 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 129 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 133 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 129 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 126 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 121 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →