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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra 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 Terra MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendoropenaimoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score71.165.3
Input Price$2.00/M$0.95/M
Output Price$12.00/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_index69.444.5
eqbench-76.6

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation 140 141
Code Review 145 144
Code Completion 118 131
Code Refactoring 147 144
Bug Fixing 149 148
Unit Test Generation 132 131
Code Documentation 135 135
Regex Writing 124 126
CI/CD Pipelines 128 127
Frontend Component Design 130 130
Data Analysis 134 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 134
ETL Scripting 137 136
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 117 128
OCR / Document Parsing 134 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 132
Long-Document Summarization 147 146
Short-Form Summarization 116 126
Blog Post Writing 128 129

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

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