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

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

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 OpenAI: GPT-5.4
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.380.9
Input Price$0.95/M$2.50/M
Output Price$4.00/M$15.00/M
Context Window262,1441,050,000
Max Output235,929128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index44.564.3
eqbench76.682.4

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: GPT-5.4
SQL Generation 141 145
Code Review 144 154
Code Completion 131 120
Code Refactoring 144 157
Bug Fixing 148 158
Unit Test Generation 131 137
Code Documentation 135 140
Regex Writing 126 126
CI/CD Pipelines 127 133
Frontend Component Design 130 133
Data Analysis 135 138
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 139
ETL Scripting 136 145
JSON Extraction 131 120
Bulk Data Labeling 128 116
OCR / Document Parsing 132 136
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 136
Long-Document Summarization 146 157
Short-Form Summarization 126 117
Blog Post Writing 129 133

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

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