MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-24.
| MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | moonshotai | anthropic |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 95.1 | 100.0 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $10.00/M | $10.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 90.9 | 95.1 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, both cost $4.50 at current list prices.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,000,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,500 pages.
Only Kimi K3.1 Pro offers video input.
On our blended benchmark score Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) leads 100.0 to 95.1.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Kimi K3.1 Pro was released in October 2026 and Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) in September 2026.
Pick Kimi K3.1 Pro if you need video input; pick Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.
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 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 143 | 144 |
| Code Review | 149 | 150 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 119 |
| Code Refactoring | 150 | 151 |
| Bug Fixing | 153 | 154 |
| Unit Test Generation | 134 | 135 |
| Code Documentation | 137 | 138 |
| Regex Writing | 126 | 127 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 130 | 131 |
| Frontend Component Design | 132 | 133 |
| Data Analysis | 137 | 138 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 140 | 141 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 135 | 135 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 135 | 135 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 151 | 152 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 118 | 118 |
| Blog Post Writing | 131 | 132 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →