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

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendoropenaimoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score71.140.9
Input Price$2.00/M$0.71/M
Output Price$12.00/M$3.30/M
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.442.6

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation 140 136
Code Review 145 134
Code Completion 118 129
Code Refactoring 147 134
Bug Fixing 149 138
Unit Test Generation 132 126
Code Documentation 135 129
Regex Writing 124 123
CI/CD Pipelines 128 122
Frontend Component Design 130 127
Data Analysis 134 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 129
ETL Scripting 137 128
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 117 128
OCR / Document Parsing 134 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 130
Long-Document Summarization 147 136
Short-Form Summarization 116 125
Blog Post Writing 128 124

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

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