GPT-4.1 vs Kimi K2 0711
GPT-4.1 and Kimi K2 0711 tie on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 12.7, and Kimi K2 0711 costs 3.5x less per output token ($2.30 vs $8.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 33 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-4.1 or Kimi K2 0711: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick GPT-4.1 for a larger context window (1.05M against 131K tokens) and work measured by Aider polyglot or SWE-bench Verified, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 33
- GPT-4.1 only
- 59
- Kimi K2 0711 only
- 4
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Tied at 12.7.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 leads, 71.5% against 65.4%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 leads, 62.7% against 39.6%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.1 leads, 80.5% against 79.4%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 leads, 1050 against 1038.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.1 takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2 0711
GPT-4.1 $0.0060, Kimi K2 0711 $0.0017 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-4.1 has the number, $0.37.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-4.1 not benchmarked, Kimi K2 0711 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 15.6 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- SWE-bench Verified: GPT-4.1 39.6% against Kimi K2 0711 71.2%, 31.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-4.1 $8.00 against Kimi K2 0711 $2.30 per million output tokens, 3.5x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-4.1 takes 1.05M tokens, Kimi K2 0711 131K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | GPT-4.1 | Bars | Kimi K2 0711 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 6 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | 1 tie | |
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 4 | ||
| Math | 0 | 5 | ||
| Knowledge | 5 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 2 | 3 | ||
| General | 3 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 11 | 21 | 1 tie |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 52.4% | 59.1% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 39.6% | 71.2% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | 31.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 54.7% | 70.5% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 45.7% | 55.6% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 13.6% | 15.9% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 27.8% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 4.9% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| WeirdML | 39.0% | 39.4% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| ALE-Bench | 558.1 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1390 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1391 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| SciCode | 4.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 12.7 | 12.7 | Tie |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 136.7 | 140.0 | Kimi K2 0711 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 47.1% | 61.1% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 54.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | 36.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 65.4% | 71.5% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 72.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 66.6% | 76.6% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.2% | 7.4% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 66.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 5.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| SimpleBench | 27.0% | 26.3% | GPT-4.1 |
| Chess puzzles | 3.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1384 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1364 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1393 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1215 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1248 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | 64.4% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 39.6% | 62.7% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 87.2% | 94.2% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 87.7% | 91.0% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| AA Math Index | 34.7 | 57.0 | Kimi K2 0711 |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 34.7% | 57.0% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 38.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 6.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| MATH level 5 | 83.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1369 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1360 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index51
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 80.5% | 79.4% | GPT-4.1 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.1% | 81.5% | GPT-4.1 |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 69.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 63.0% | 50.4% | GPT-4.1 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.1% | 70.2% | GPT-4.1 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 65.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 91.2% | 84.0% | GPT-4.1 |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.6% | 82.4% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 31.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| GeoBench | 72.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1382 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1379 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1399 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1369 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 45.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index23
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1038 | 1050 | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 997 | 1027 | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1079 | 973 | GPT-4.1 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1104 | 1018 | GPT-4.1 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 849 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1025 | 1033 | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 43.0% | 41.5% | GPT-4.1 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 68.3% | 53.0% | GPT-4.1 |
| DTBench | 68.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMCA | 25.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 63.9% | 61.1% | GPT-4.1 |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 85.6% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| CL-bench | Not measured | 11.9% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1383 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1367 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1363 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1210 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1392 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1370 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1382 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1381 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1319 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1338 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1382 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1376 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1377 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1389 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1397 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1385 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1371 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1365 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1209 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1226 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1218 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1196 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1207 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1208 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1210 | Not measured | Only GPT-4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2 0711 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Kimi K2 0711 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Kimi K2 0711 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-4.1 | MoonshotAI Kimi K2 0711 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | April 14, 2025 | July 11, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.57 |
| Output $/Mtok | $8.00 | $2.30 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.37 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-4.1 better than Kimi K2 0711 for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-4.1 for a larger context window (1.05M against 131K tokens) and work measured by Aider polyglot or SWE-bench Verified, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or Kimi K2 0711?
GPT-4.1 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens; Kimi K2 0711 costs $0.57 and $2.30. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4.1 or Kimi K2 0711?
GPT-4.1, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-4.1 vs Kimi K2 0711 comparison based on?
33 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-4.1's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Kimi K2 0711's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.