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Cohere vs Moonshot · synced 2026-08-11

command-r-plus vs kimi-k2-0905-preview

kimi-k2-0905-preview is 4.2× cheaper on input than command-r-plus.

command-r-plus kimi-k2-0905-preview
Input / 1M $2.50 $0.60
Cached input / 1M — $0.15
Output / 1M $10.00 $2.50
Context window 128K 262K
Max output 4K 262K
Provider Cohere Moonshot
Vision No No
Tool calling Yes Yes
Token count estimated estimated

Capability for the money

Independent measurement · Artificial Analysis · read 2026-08-11

kimi-k2-0905-preview is 4.1× cheaper than command-r-plus and scores higher on every benchmark they share — there is no case for paying more here.

  1. Coding

    writing and fixing code

    LiveCodeBench
    command-r-plus12.2%
    kimi-k2-0905-preview61.0%

    kimi-k2-0905-preview +48.8

  2. Hard reasoning

    graduate-level science and multi-step analysis

    GPQA Diamond
    command-r-plus32.3%
    kimi-k2-0905-preview76.7%

    kimi-k2-0905-preview +44.4

Averaged over the benchmarks both models sat, kimi-k2-0905-preview returns 64.0 points of pass rate per dollar of blended price against 5.1 — the ratio that decides whether the dearer model earns its rate.

Each figure is a pass rate: the share of that test set the model answered correctly, measured by a third party rather than self-reported by the lab. Rows are different tests of different difficulty, so compare a model against the other model, not one row against the next. No published following instructions or tool use score for one of these models, so those lenses are omitted. And a benchmark is not your workload — it narrows the shortlist, it does not pick for you.

Which to pick

List price is not production cost. Output length, cache hit rate, retries and task quality move the real number more than the headline rate does — price your own prompt on the token ledger before deciding.

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