Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.5 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #15 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Kimi K3 in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K3 leads 63.0 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 28.6% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 94.5% for Kimi K3.
  • Kimi K3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Kimi K3 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
ProviderAnthropicMoonshot AI
Noometry Index39.559.5
Released2025-02-242026-07-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1.05M
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$3
Output $ / M tokens—$15
Results tracked5853

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Kimi K3: 61.0 (#10)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
LMArena Coding13611508
SWE-bench Verified61%—
DeepSWE—68.5%
FrontierCode—44.2%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1654
FrontierSWE—25.9%
SciCode—59.5%
GSO3.8%—
WeirdML—82.6%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—1,524

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Kimi K3: 41.8 (#20)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
APEX-Agents—50.6%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
τ²-bench Banking—37.1%
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
PostTrainBench—32%
GBAEval—48.3%
GDP.pdf—19%
METR Time Horizons60%—
Vending-Bench 2—5,165

Reasoning Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Kimi K3: 63.0 (#17)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
ARC-AGI-20.9%60.4%
SimpleBench46.4%60.7%
ARC-AGI-128.6%94.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331496
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16157.45
ForecastBench61.861.1
NYT Connections (extended)—93.6%
CritPt—23.4%
Chess Puzzles—39%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—91.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—52.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—95%
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Kimi K3: 74.2 (#16)

Knowledge Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Kimi K3: 63.2 (#21)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
GPQA Diamond79.7%93.1%
LMArena Expert13211521
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified—50.6%
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Kimi K3: 37.8 (#70)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—29.5%
Furniture Assembly—34.2%
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Kimi K3: 56.3 (#21)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
LMArena Non-English12961466
LMArena Chinese12991529
LMArena French13031491
LMArena German13011488
LMArena Japanese12671487
LMArena Korean12491458
LMArena Russian13111482
LMArena Spanish12981472

Instruction Following Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Kimi K3: 77.7 (#14)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
LMArena Instruction Following13521483
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Kimi K3: 45.8 (#29)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
LMArena Longer Query13731494
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K3 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Kimi K3: 76.6 (#4)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetKimi K3
LMArena Text13141476
LMArena Creative Writing13321454
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14122082
LMArena Multi-Turn13391488
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
EQ-Bench 4—1339
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.5 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Kimi K3 better for coding?

Kimi K3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 61.0 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Kimi K3 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K3 has 53.

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