GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) vs Kimi K2 0711
Updated October 21, 2026. 4 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Kimi K2 0711 for coding: it scores 64.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 3.6 for GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18).
Pick GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) when output tokens cost 3.8x less.
- Shared results
- 4
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) only
- 42
- Kimi K2 0711 only
- 32
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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, four public coding benchmarks
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 scores 64.7 against 3.6.
1 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 12.7.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a GPQA Diamond result, 71.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a AIME result, 62.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a MMLU Pro result, 79.4%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1050.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 takes 131K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) $0.0004, Kimi K2 0711 $0.0017 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 3.6 from 1 benchmark, Kimi K2 0711 64.7 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 41.5 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Aider polyglot: GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 3.6% against Kimi K2 0711 59.1%, 55.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) $0.60 against Kimi K2 0711 $2.30 per million output tokens, 3.8x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) takes 128K 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-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Bars | Kimi K2 0711 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 1 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 4 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 3.6% | 59.1% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 71.2% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.5% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 55.6% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 15.9% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 27.8% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 4.9% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| WeirdML | 11.8% | 39.4% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1290 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1291 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 12.7 | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 140.0 | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 61.1% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| BALROG | 17.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 71.5% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 76.6% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 7.4% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 37.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| SimpleBench | 10.7% | 26.3% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Chess puzzles | 3.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 12.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| VPCT | 34.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1267 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1234 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1278 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 62.7% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 94.2% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 91.0% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 57.0 | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 57.0% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 6.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 0.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| MATH level 5 | 52.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1267 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1271 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 79.4% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.5% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.4% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.2% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 84.0% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 82.4% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 8.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| MMLU | 76.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| GeoBench | 64.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1286 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1282 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1305 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1265 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1050 | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1030 | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 974 | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1018 | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1034 | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Kimi K2 0711 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | Not measured | 41.5% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 53.0% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 61.1% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 67.2% | 85.6% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| CL-bench | Not measured | 11.9% | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1286 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1258 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1268 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1066 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1301 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1266 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1265 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1272 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1216 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1195 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1297 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1276 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1275 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1244 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1285 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1289 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1282 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1253 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1072 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1033 | Not measured | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | 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
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 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-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | MoonshotAI Kimi K2 0711 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | July 18, 2024 | July 11, 2025 |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.15 | $0.57 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $2.30 |
| Coding index | 3.6 | 64.7 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) better than Kimi K2 0711 for coding?
Pick Kimi K2 0711 for coding: it scores 64.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 3.6 for GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18). Pick GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) when output tokens cost 3.8x less.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) or Kimi K2 0711?
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Kimi K2 0711 costs $0.57 and $2.30. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) or Kimi K2 0711?
Kimi K2 0711, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) vs Kimi K2 0711 comparison based on?
4 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)'s coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Kimi K2 0711's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.