Kimi K3 MaxvsClaude Opus 4 5 20251101

Kimi K3 Max leads the overall Podium Score by 1.0 points (74.0 vs 73.0).Category wins: Kimi K3 Max 0 — 0 Claude Opus 4 5 20251101.Kimi K3 Max is the cheaper pick ($3/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Kimi K3 Max is faster (50 t/s vs 50 t/s).

MetricKimi K3 MaxClaude Opus 4 5 20251101
Podium Score74.0 ▲73.0
Arena Elo
Intelligence Index
Coding
Math
Reasoning
Agentic
Knowledge
Multimodal
Long-context
Output speed50 t/s50 t/s
Output price$3/M ▲$15/M
Context window128K128K
Scores aggregated from five leaderboards on 2026-08-05. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Kimi K3 Max vs Claude Mythos Preview · Kimi K3 Max vs Claude Fable 5 · Kimi K3 Max vs Kimi K3 · Kimi K3 Max vs Claude Opus 5