Kimi K2 vs Claude Opus 4.7: Open vs Closed at the Frontier

Kimi K2Claude Opus 4.7
arenaElo13841420
humanEval90.193.1
sweBench65.864.3
mmlu89.192.3
gpqa64.765.2
aime7088
Price in/out ($/M)$0.5 / $2$15 / $75

Our verdict

Opus 4.7 is still ahead on reasoning, coding and agent reliability. Kimi K2 costs 30× less per token and can be self-hosted. For mission-critical agents, Opus. For cost-sensitive or on-prem deployments that need 1M+ context, Kimi.

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