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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ·Moonshot AI vs OpenAI

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — head-to-head comparison

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 profile OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b profile All comparisons
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — Moonshot AI
Quality
#7 of 65
92based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#274 of 356
42.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#261 of 504
$0.94
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.43 · Out $2.45
Cache hit price
#224 of 384
$0.12
per 1M tokens (−72%)
Context
#321 of 550
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI
Quality
#44 of 65
62based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#25 of 356
150.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#24 of 504
$0.07
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.04 · Out $0.17
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
#408 of 550
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 scores 92 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 62 — a 31-point lead for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. They share 2 published evaluations, with MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ahead on 2 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $0.94 per 1M tokens for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 and $0.07 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is about 13.4× cheaper.

Throughput is 42 tokens per second for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 and 151 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b, with time to first token at 1.9s and 0.8s. MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 accepts 262k tokens of context against 131k.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 33 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 10 serve both.

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At a glance
MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 92 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 62 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.94 $0.07
Output tok/s 42 151
Context window 262k 131k
Providers 23 20
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 92 62
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 76
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 89

Right-hand figures read MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 leads on 2 of 2, OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Text Arena 1,455 1,365
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,461 1,352
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Input $/1M $0.43 $0.04
Output $/1M $2.45 $0.17
Blended $/1M $0.94 $0.07
Cache read $/1M $0.120 —
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Context window 262k 131k
Max output tokens 236k 118k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Output tokens/s 42 151
Time to first token 1.9s 0.8s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

33 hosts · 10 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 blendedMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 tok/s OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blendedOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s
CoreWeave $1.34 119 $0.07 37
Together $2.02 119 $0.26 88
BaseTen $1.71 113 $0.20 176
ModelRun $1.38 103 — —
AtlasCloud $1.71 98 — —
Parasail $1.44 71 $0.26 119
Inceptron $0.94 67 — —
StreamLake $1.08 66 — —
Crusoe $1.40 54 $0.10 190
Novita $1.45 50 $0.10 138
Baidu · first party $0.78 49 — —
Moonshot AI · first party $1.71 40 — —
Phala $1.97 38 $0.26 116
Cloudflare $1.71 37 — —
Chutes $1.09 33 — —
Decart $1.06 33 — —
Sail Research $1.75 27 — —
SiliconFlow $1.43 27 $0.26 24
DigitalOcean $1.03 16 $0.15 44
DeepInfra $1.44 13 $0.07 114
Venice $1.44 13 — —
Fireworks $1.71 — — —
GMICloud $1.54 — — —
Cerebras — — $0.45 828
Groq — — $0.26 323
Amazon Bedrock · first party — — $0.26 290
SambaNova — — $0.34 264
Nebius — — $0.26 259
Mara — — $0.30 172
Google · first party — — $0.16 108
AkashML — — $0.07 61
Mancer 2 — — $0.10 43
DekaLLM — — $0.07 22

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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