Models / Compare /Kimi K2.6 vs gpt-oss-120b
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Kimi K2.6 vs gpt-oss-120b
Compared on live catalog data — pricing synced daily, benchmark scores with provenance.
The short version
- gpt-oss-120b is cheaper to run hosted: $0.17/M output vs $2.48/M for Kimi K2.6 (14.6× difference at the cheapest tracked provider).
- Kimi K2.6 takes 262K tokens of context vs 131K for gpt-oss-120b.
- Kimi K2.6 has downloadable weights (OPEN*) so you can self-host it; we hold no downloadable copy of gpt-oss-120b, so it runs through a provider's API.
- Kimi K2.6 scores 1514.8204 on Arena Coding vs 1390.1368 for gpt-oss-120b.
- Kimi K2.6 scores 1429.4789 on Arena Creative Writing vs 1277.4859 for gpt-oss-120b.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Moonshot AI | OpenAI |
| Parameters | 1.1T / 32B | 120B |
| 262K | 131K | |
| Weights | OPEN* | OPEN |
| License | Custom licence | Apache License 2.0 |
| Modality | text+image->text | text->text |
| Released | Apr 14, 2026 | Aug 4, 2025 |
| 667.5 GBest | 75.9 GBest | |
| Cheapest hosted | $0.59 / $2.48 per 1M (OpenRouter) | $0.037 / $0.17 per 1M (OpenRouter) |
| Tracked providers | 26 | 23 |
Kimi K2.6 — our take
Kimi K2.6 is a large mixture-of-experts model from Moonshot AI that accepts text and images and handles up to 262,144 tokens in a single request. It is the strongest coder in our measured set, with a coding score well above its general chat rating, though its creative writing lags behind both.
full breakdown →gpt-oss-120b — our take
gpt-oss-120b is OpenAI's first downloadable model, released in 2025 with a permissive Apache licence and a 120.4-billion-parameter dense architecture. It offers broad measured coverage across chat, coding and creative tasks, though its scores vary sharply by category and it is text-only.
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