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Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code offers cheaper alternative to GPT-5.5, Claude

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Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K2.7 Code, a new open-weights model with one trillion parameters designed for coding tasks. While it does not yet match the performance of models like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on coding benchmarks, it offers a significantly lower price per token, potentially up to 12 times cheaper. This cost-effectiveness raises questions about whether the increased accessibility and affordability can compensate for its current performance gap. AI

IMPACT Offers a significantly cheaper alternative for coding tasks, potentially enabling wider adoption despite performance gaps.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code offers cheaper alternative to GPT-5.5, Claude

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  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Matthias Bastian ·

    Moonshot's open model Kimi K2.7 Code undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude by up to 12x on price per token

    <p><img alt="" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="1152" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/kimi_logo.png" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;" width="2048" /></p> <p> Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weights model wi…

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