compare/Claude Opus 5.5vsKimi-K2.6

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Kimi-K2.6

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Claude Opus 5.5
anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
Kimi-K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
ProviderAnthropicMoonshot
FamilyClaude 4Kimi
Modalitytexttext
Context window1,000,000 tok262,144 tok
Max output128,000 tok16,384 tok
Released2026-09-232026-04-20
Input price$4.00 /1M$0.950 /1M
Output price$20.00 /1M$4.00 /1M
Cache read—$0.160 /1M
Toolsyesyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyesyes
JSON modeyesyes
Reasoningyesyes
Prompt caching—yes
Claude Opus 5.5
anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
Full spec →

Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's model for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work. It combines a one million token context window with adaptive thinking that is always on, a 128K token maximum output, and a medium default effort level.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Kimi-K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
Full spec →

Kimi K2.6 is a frontier-scale open-source 1T parameter model with a 262.1k context window, multi-turn tool calling, vision inputs, and structured outputs for agentic workloads.

Strengths
  • Frontier-scale 1T parameters, open-weight
  • ~10× cheaper than Opus
  • Multi-turn tool calling + vision
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Claude Opus 5.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-opus-5.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Kimi-K2.6 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k2.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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