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Updated Jul 2025

Claude 3.7 SonnetvsKimi K2

Kimi K2 wins 75% of 25 blind community votes against Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Rival.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Kimi K2 compared across 55 shared prompts
SpecClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K2
Win rate25%75%
Input price$3/M tokens$0.57/M tokens
Output price$15/M tokens$2.3/M tokens
Context window200K tokens—
Weights—Open
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedFeb 2025Jul 2025
SWE-bench Verified70.3%65.8%
Our Verdict
Kimi K2
Kimi K2Winner
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Claude 3.7 SonnetRunner-up

Pick Kimi K2. In 25 blind votes, Kimi K2 wins 75% of the time. That's not luck.

Kimi K2 wins 3 categories, Conversation by the widest margin. Kimi K2 costs 6.5x less per token.

Clear winner
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Kimi K2
Input
$0.57
5.3× cheaper
Output
$2.30
6.5× cheaper

Kimi K2 is cheaper on both: 5.3× input, 6.5× output.

Where to run it

1 host

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Kimi K21 host
HostInOutContextUptime
NNovitafp8$0.57 in·$2.30 out·131k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 9 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
43%

Kimi K2 uses 53.8x more emoji

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Kimi K2
61%Vocabulary66%
33wSentence Length19w
0.83Hedging0.34
2.2Bold3.3
4.9Lists3.4
0.00Emoji0.54
1.78Headings0.48
0.16Transitions0.05
Based on 26 + 28 text responses
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