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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendoropenaimoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-74.1
Input Price$0.10/M$0.60/M
Output Price$0.60/M$3.50/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-69.2
ai_index_agentic-48.8
ai_index_coding-100.0

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) costs $0.25 and Kimi K2.7 Code costs $1.48, so GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) is about 5.9 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Kimi K2.7 Code.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) scores higher on 1 (Code Completion), Kimi K2.7 Code on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) was released in July 2026 and Kimi K2.7 Code in June 2026.

Pick GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch) if you need lower cost or long documents; pick Kimi K2.7 Code if you need 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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (batch)MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation 133 163
Code Review 132 155
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 136 151
Bug Fixing 136 165
Unit Test Generation 124 147
Code Documentation 131 135
Regex Writing 119 133
CI/CD Pipelines 120 138
Frontend Component Design 122 142
Data Analysis 124 162
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 147
ETL Scripting 128 144
JSON Extraction 131 147
Bulk Data Labeling 129 134
OCR / Document Parsing 131 142
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 142
Long-Document Summarization 137 147
Short-Form Summarization 123 130
Blog Post Writing 121 134

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

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