Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Kimi K2 Turbo Preview from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Opus 4.8
Kimi K2 Turbo PreviewClaude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
The kimi-k2-turbo-preview model is a high-speed version of kimi-k2, with the same model parameters as kimi-k2, but the output speed has been increased from 10 tokens per second to 40 tokens per second.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Kimi K2 Turbo Preview: $4.8/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Kimi K2 Turbo Preview: 1467 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Claude Opus 4.8: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Kimi K2 Turbo Preview accepts 262,144 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 8,192 tokens on Kimi K2 Turbo Preview.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and Kimi K2 Turbo Preview at 19.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Kimi K2 Turbo Preview accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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