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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.337.7
Input Price$0.95/M$0.75/M
Output Price$4.00/M$4.50/M
Context Window262,144400,000
Max Output235,929128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index44.539.7
eqbench76.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
SQL Generation 141 138
Code Review 144 139
Code Completion 131 131
Code Refactoring 144 142
Bug Fixing 148 143
Unit Test Generation 131 128
Code Documentation 135 134
Regex Writing 126 122
CI/CD Pipelines 127 124
Frontend Component Design 130 126
Data Analysis 135 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 135
ETL Scripting 136 133
JSON Extraction 131 130
Bulk Data Labeling 128 128
OCR / Document Parsing 132 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 133
Long-Document Summarization 146 143
Short-Form Summarization 126 124
Blog Post Writing 129 126

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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