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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendoropenaimoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-65.3
Input Price$0.20/M$0.95/M
Output Price$1.20/M$4.00/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-44.5
eqbench-76.6

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna ProMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation 133 141
Code Review 132 144
Code Completion 131 131
Code Refactoring 136 144
Bug Fixing 136 148
Unit Test Generation 124 131
Code Documentation 131 135
Regex Writing 119 126
CI/CD Pipelines 120 127
Frontend Component Design 122 130
Data Analysis 124 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 134
ETL Scripting 128 136
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 128
OCR / Document Parsing 131 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 132
Long-Document Summarization 137 146
Short-Form Summarization 123 126
Blog Post Writing 121 129

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

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