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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-02.

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendoropenaimoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score80.240.9
Input Price$2.00/M$0.67/M
Output Price$10.00/M$3.35/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index77.542.6

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Kimi K2.7 Code costs $1.51 and GPT-5.6 Sol costs $4.50, so Kimi K2.7 Code is about 3.0 times cheaper for the same work.

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

On our blended benchmark score GPT-5.6 Sol leads 80.2 to 40.9.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Kimi K2.7 Code on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

GPT-5.6 Sol was released in July 2026 and Kimi K2.7 Code in June 2026.

Pick GPT-5.6 Sol if you need long documents, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Kimi K2.7 Code if you need lower cost.

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 SolMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation 142 136
Code Review 146 134
Code Completion 119 129
Code Refactoring 148 134
Bug Fixing 150 138
Unit Test Generation 133 126
Code Documentation 136 129
Regex Writing 125 123
CI/CD Pipelines 129 122
Frontend Component Design 131 127
Data Analysis 135 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 138 128
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 128
OCR / Document Parsing 134 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 130
Long-Document Summarization 149 136
Short-Form Summarization 117 125
Blog Post Writing 130 124

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

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