Kimi K2 vs Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Detailed comparison of capabilities, features, and performance.

Kimi K2

Kimi K2

Moonshot
VS
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Anthropic
Feature Kimi K2 Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)
AI Lab Moonshot Anthropic
Context Size 256,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Max Output Size 16,384 tokens 64,000 tokens
Frontier Model No Yes
Vision Support No Yes
Description Kimi K2 (0905) is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. Hosted in the USA. The latest Claude 4.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic with maximum reasoning enabled, 200k reasoning tokens in 1M context.

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