Head-to-head comparison
Kimi K2.7 Code (Moonshot AI) and GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 17 August 2026
As of 17 August 2026, GPT-5.5 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#8 vs #26); Kimi K2.7 Code is 8.6× cheaper per output token ($3.50/1M vs $30.00/1M); and GPT-5.5 offers the longer context window (1M vs 262K tokens).
Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · 6 public benchmark observations across 6 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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GPT-5.5 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #8 against #26. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
Kimi K2.7 Code is cheaper on output tokens: $3.50/1M against $30.00/1M. Input tokens are $0.71/1M for Kimi K2.7 Code and $5.00/1M for GPT-5.5. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
GPT-5.5 has the larger context window: 1M tokens against 262K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Kimi K2.7 Code: Restricted license. GPT-5.5: API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 14 API providers for Kimi K2.7 Code and 3 for GPT-5.5, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.