Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct by Moonshot AI, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 35 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is 25x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.30
10× cheaper
Output
$0.60
25× cheaper
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is cheaper on both — 10× input, 25× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
42%
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct uses 15.7x more bold
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
66%Vocabulary63%
74wSentence Length15w
0.72Hedging0.19
0.3Bold5.2
8.9Lists3.2
0.00Emoji0.00
0.06Headings0.38
0.09Transitions0.05
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