Claude Opus 4.7 vs Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Compare Claude Opus 4.7 by Anthropic against Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct by Moonshot AI, context windows of 1.0M vs 1.0M, tested across 34 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.7
Kimi Linear 48B A3B InstructRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.7 has the edge — newer, major provider backing.
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is 42x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.7
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.30
17× cheaper
Output
$0.60
42× cheaper
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is cheaper on both — 17× input, 42× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
55%
Claude Opus 4.7 uses 86.2x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.7
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
64%Vocabulary63%
20wSentence Length15w
0.51Hedging0.19
4.6Bold5.2
3.8Lists3.2
0.86Emoji0.00
1.60Headings0.38
0.03Transitions0.05
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