The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
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 62
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#122 of 317
58.8
Output tokens per second
Price
#225 of 370
$1.16
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.65 · Out $2.72
Cache hit price
#119 of 238
$0.11
per 1M tokens (−83%)
Context
#199 of 375
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI
Quality
#42 of 62
61based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#13 of 317
144.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#35 of 370
$0.07
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.04 · Out $0.17
Cache hit price
#28 of 238
$0.015
per 1M tokens (−59%)
Context
#265 of 375
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 scores 93 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 61 — a 32-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 $1.16 per 1M tokens for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 and $0.07 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is about 16.6× cheaper.

Throughput is 59 tokens per second for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 and 145 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b, with time to first token at 1.4s and 0.9s. 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). 30 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 9 serve both.

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At a glance
MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 61 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.16 $0.07
Output tok/s 59 145
Context window 262k 131k
Providers 22 17
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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 93 61
Mathematics Index 96 89
Agentic Index 87 18
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 1,366
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 $0.65 $0.04
Output $/1M $2.72 $0.17
Blended $/1M $1.16 $0.07
Cache read $/1M $0.109 $0.015
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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 262k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Output tokens/s 59 145
Time to first token 1.4s 0.9s
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Providers

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

30 hosts · 9 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
Together $2.02 138 $0.26 114
CoreWeave $1.34 135 $0.07 32
Parasail $1.44 128 $0.26 101
BaseTen $1.71 127 $0.20 171
Fireworks $1.71 86
Decart $1.34 76
ModelRun $1.38 76
Cloudflare $1.71 56
Inceptron $1.30 52
DigitalOcean $1.37 51 $0.17 22
Crusoe $1.40 50
Phala $1.97 42 $0.26 82
Baidu · first party $1.16 42
Chutes $1.37 42
DeepInfra $1.44 38 $0.07 196
Venice $1.44 36
AtlasCloud $1.71 34
SiliconFlow $1.43 34 $0.15 12
Novita $1.45 31 $0.10 64
StreamLake $1.54 31
Moonshot AI · first party $1.71 23
Sail Research $1.75 6
Cerebras $0.45 501
SambaNova $0.34 367
Groq $0.26 352
Amazon Bedrock · first party $0.26 342
Nebius $0.26 231
Google · first party $0.16 177
Mara $0.30 146
Mancer 2 $0.17 40

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

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