Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Compare Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet 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 3.7 Thinking SonnetRunner-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 50x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Input
$6.00
Output
$30.00
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.30
20× cheaper
Output
$0.60
50× cheaper
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is cheaper on both — 20× input, 50× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
42%
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet uses 4.8x more headings
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
61%Vocabulary63%
49wSentence Length15w
0.64Hedging0.19
2.2Bold5.2
4.5Lists3.2
0.00Emoji0.00
1.81Headings0.38
0.21Transitions0.05
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Research
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