Claude Opus 4.5 vs Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Compare Claude Opus 4.5 by Anthropic against Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct by Moonshot AI, tested across 35 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.5
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.5
Input
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Output
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Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.30
Output
$0.60
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Style Comparison
Similarity
41%
Claude Opus 4.5 uses 15.2x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.5
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
64%Vocabulary63%
55wSentence Length15w
0.86Hedging0.19
5.8Bold5.2
4.5Lists3.2
0.15Emoji0.00
1.59Headings0.38
0.05Transitions0.05
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