# Claude 4 Sonnet vs Kimi K2.6

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 4 Sonnet and Kimi K2.6 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-4-sonnet-vs-kimi-2-6
- Last updated: October 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude 4 Sonnet and Kimi K2.6 share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Kimi K2.6 has the lower published output-token price.
- Kimi K2.6 has the larger published context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 4 Sonnet | Kimi K2.6 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 38.39 | 58.74 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 4 | 37 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.95 / $4.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 43.7 (Supported · #57/123)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gert Labs | 39.66% | 56.82% | Kimi K2.6 |
| JobBench | 18.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66.7% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 83.2% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 73.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 50% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 62.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 4.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 43.9 (Supported · #54/146)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% | 80.2% | Kimi K2.6 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 58.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 76.7% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 52.2% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 66.7% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 37.89% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | Coming soon | 47.6% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 76.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 56.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 56.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 73.8 (#27/54)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 37.7 (Estimated · #118/177)
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 59.8 (Supported · #45/177)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 34.7% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 53.5 (#78/127)
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.6 public-lane score: 72.2 (#1/7)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | Kimi K2.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 33.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 96.4% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 38.966% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 14.580% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude 4 Sonnet and Kimi K2.6?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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