# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Kimi K3

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Kimi K3 in 1 of 8 shared categories: Vision.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Kimi K3: $4.125 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

Kimi K3: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in General LLM at #13 against #20.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Reasoning at #7 against #10.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Science at #17 against #27.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding › Web dev at #11 against #33.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Long context at #8 against #10.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Kimi K3 in Vision at #13 against #22.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Factuality at #19 against #21.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Abstraction (ARC) at #8 against #12.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, Kimi K3 is tied for state of the art in General LLM (since Oct 13, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).