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OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
Vendoropenaimoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score37.759.2
Input Price$0.75/M$0.45/M
Output Price$4.50/M$2.25/M
Context Window400,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index39.738.7
eqbench-72.5

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.4 MiniMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
SQL Generation 138 140
Code Review 139 142
Code Refactoring 142 143
Bug Fixing 143 146
Unit Test Generation 128 131
Code Documentation 134 135
Regex Writing 122 126
CI/CD Pipelines 124 127
Frontend Component Design 126 129
Data Analysis 130 134
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 134
ETL Scripting 133 135
JSON Extraction 130 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 132
Long-Document Summarization 143 145
Short-Form Summarization 124 126
Blog Post Writing 126 128

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

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