claude-sonnet-4-6 vs kimi-k2.6
Pricing, Performance & Features Comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's best combination of speed and intelligence, delivering frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale. It features advanced capabilities including extended and adaptive thinking, supports a 1M token context window, and excels in reasoning, coding, multilingual tasks, long-context handling, and image processing with a training data cutoff of January 2026.
Input$3
Output$15
Latency (p50)2s
Output Limit128K
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in$3out$15––
Latency (24h)
Success Rate (24h)
Context Length262K
Reasoning
Providers1
ReleasedApr 2026
Knowledge CutoffApr 2025
LicenseMIT License
Mixture-of-Experts model with 1T total parameters and 32B activated per token. Features MLA attention, MoonViT vision encoder, and agent swarm orchestration.
Input$0.95
Output$4
Latency (p50)3.8s
Output Limit66K
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in$0.95out$4cache$0.16write$0.95