Updated October 14, 2026. Rank says Inkling is ahead. Price, access, and your workload can each overturn that. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty.
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Inkling has the higher public score estimate, 52.13 versus 49.33, but the 90% score intervals overlap. Treat that as a lead, not a settled winner. 6 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code has the higher public coding point estimate, 42.2 to 34, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code has the higher public agentic point estimate, 37.5 to 36.2, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Inkling
Inkling has the larger documented context window.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Choose a job from the LLM Selector's task catalog to see the category row it rests on, under the same basis rules as the table below. A directional row stays directional; choosing a job never creates a winner.
The same task catalog as the LLM Selector. Each job names the evidence surface it rests on; nothing here adds a new score.
Like-for-like · BenchAlign v5.8
Kimi K2.7 Code has the higher coding point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Coding scores combine specific tasks and setups. Match the editor, harness, and effort to your workflow.
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
2 categories rest on Estimated evidence or different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Math
Normalized gap 20.7FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Math
Normalized gap 7.3LiveCodeBench (Vals)Coding
Normalized gap 3.4Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign v5.8 lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
| Category | Inkling | Kimi K2.7 Code | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 36.2Supported · #72/124 | 37.5Supported · #68/124 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 5 vs 4 public rows | Kimi K2.7 Code leads · intervals overlap |
| Coding | 34.0Supported · #80/149 | 42.2Supported · #60/149 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 6 vs 7 public rows | Kimi K2.7 Code leads · intervals overlap |
| Knowledge | 54.5Supported · #62/181 | 54.3Estimated · #63/181 | Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 6 vs 0 public rows | Directional only |
| Instruction following | 87.6#35/128 | 76.6#60/128 | Directional onlyProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows | Directional only |
| Reasoning | 79.0#14/29 | 80.3Unranked · 2 rankable rows | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | 67.5#35/54 | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 2 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Math | 58.3#11/12 | 58.3Unranked · 2 rankable rows | Not comparableProvisional lane · 3 vs 2 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign v5.8) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the provisional lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2.7 Code has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Kimi K2.7 Code has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Kimi K2.7 Code has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Inkling
1M
Kimi K2.7 Code
256K
Inkling
Not sourced
Kimi K2.7 Code
Not sourced
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Inkling
$0.374 per 1M cached input tokens
Kimi K2.7 Code
$0.19 per 1M cached input tokens
Inkling
Not sourced
Kimi K2.7 Code
Not sourced
Inkling
Not sourced
Kimi K2.7 Code
Not sourced
Inkling
Not sourced
Kimi K2.7 Code
Not sourced
Inkling
Hybrid
Kimi K2.7 Code
Reasoning
Inkling
Open Weight
Kimi K2.7 Code
Open Weight
Inkling
Open Weight
Kimi K2.7 Code
Open Weight
Inkling
2026-07-15
Kimi K2.7 Code
2026-06-12
Inkling has the higher public score estimate, 52.13 versus 49.33, but the 90% score intervals overlap. The higher estimate is not a decisive winner because the uncertainty ranges overlap.
Kimi K2.7 Code has the higher public coding point estimate, 42.2 to 34, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Kimi K2.7 Code has the higher public agentic tasks point estimate, 37.5 to 36.2, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.00421 on Inkling and $0.00295 on Kimi K2.7 Code; repository review costs $0.10754 and $0.0595; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.159 and $0.097. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Inkling has the larger documented context window: 1M, compared with 256K.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Terminal-Bench 2.1
Not directly comparable
BrowseComp
Not directly comparable
MCP Atlas
Kimi K2.7 Code leads this result
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
Kimi K2.7 Code leads this result
CWE-bench v1
Not directly comparable
Kimi Claw 24/7
Not directly comparable
MCP Mark Verified
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Verified
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1
Not directly comparable
FrontierSWE v2
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
Inkling leads this result
SWE-bench (Vals)
Kimi K2.7 Code leads this result
Kimi Code Bench v2
Not directly comparable
ProgramBench
Not directly comparable
MLS-Bench Lite
Not directly comparable
CursorBench 3.2
Not directly comparable
OpenHarmony Bench
Not directly comparable
GPQA
Not directly comparable
GPQA-D
Not directly comparable
HLE
Not directly comparable
HLE w/o tools
Not directly comparable
GPQA Diamond (Vals)
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro (Vals)
Not directly comparable
IFBench
Not directly comparable
AIME26
Not directly comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)
Shared sourceKimi K2.7 Code leads this result
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)
Shared sourceKimi K2.7 Code leads this result
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Last updated October 14, 2026
