Head-to-head comparison
Kimi K2 Thinking (Moonshot AI) and GLM 5 Turbo (Z.ai) 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 18 August 2026
As of 18 August 2026, Kimi K2 Thinking holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#32 vs #39); Kimi K2 Thinking is 1.6× cheaper per output token ($2.50/1M vs $4.00/1M); and Kimi K2 Thinking offers the longer context window (262K vs 203K tokens).
Evidence: 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 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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Kimi K2 Thinking ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 18 August 2026: #32 against #39. 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 Thinking is cheaper on output tokens: $2.50/1M against $4.00/1M. Input tokens are $0.60/1M for Kimi K2 Thinking and $1.20/1M for GLM 5 Turbo. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Kimi K2 Thinking has the larger context window: 262K tokens against 203K.
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 Thinking: Restricted license. GLM 5 Turbo: 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 2 API providers for Kimi K2 Thinking and 1 for GLM 5 Turbo, 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 18 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.