# Claude Opus 4.7 vs Kimi K2 5 Instant

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Kimi K2 5 Instant in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

Claude Opus 4.7: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Kimi K2 5 Instant: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Opus 4.7: closed weights.

Kimi K2 5 Instant: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Kimi K2 5 Instant in General LLM at #5 against #103.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Kimi K2 5 Instant in Reasoning at #4 against #89.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Kimi K2 5 Instant in Coding › Web dev at #34 against #77.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Kimi K2 5 Instant in Long context at #4 against #95.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 leads Kimi K2 5 Instant in Factuality at #13 against #107.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 is near state of the art, rank #4 in Reasoning (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K2 5 Instant is ranked #77 in Coding › Web dev (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).
