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GPT-6 Luna vs GPT-5.4 Mini compared: rate card, context windows, knowledge cutoffs, and the shared Artificial Analysis harness where Luna leads the Intelligence Index 37 to 24 at 6.4x lower cost per task, while mini wins on speed. Vendor scorecard gaps stated honestly.
Claude Opus 5 vs Kimi K3: Opus 5 leads the independent BenchLM aggregate 85.88 to 79.98 and posts a 43.3–43.5% Frontier-Bench score that K3 has never even been tested on.
Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Fable 5: Opus 5 beats Fable 5 on 7 of 12 benchmarks including Frontier-Bench (+9.6) and OSWorld 2.0 — at half the price ($25 vs $50/1M output). Fable 5 edges SWE-bench Pro by just 0.8 pts. Full comparison with radar charts, pricing, data retention, and verdict.
Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol: Opus 5 leads 9 of 12 benchmarks including SWE-bench Pro (+14.6 pts) and ARC-AGI-3 (3.9× better). Sol counters with Terminal-Bench 2.1 (91.9% Ultra) and DeepSWE. Opus 5 costs 17% less on output ($25 vs $30/1M). Full comparison with radar charts, pricing, and verdict.
Kimi K3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol: Sol leads 6 of 9 shared benchmarks including DeepSWE and Terminal-Bench 2.1. K3 wins FrontierSWE, BrowseComp, and AA-Briefcase at 40% lower cost. Sol Ultra hits 91.9% on Terminal-Bench. Full comparison with radar charts and pricing.
Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5 across 35 benchmarks: Fable wins 22, K3 wins 12, 1 tie. K3 leads Terminal-Bench 2.1, SWE Marathon (+7), BrowseComp, and took #1 on the Frontend Code Arena — all at 70% less cost. Fable dominates FrontierSWE (+5.4), HLE (+9.8), and vision. Full scorecard with radar charts and pricing analysis.
Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 4.8: K3 leads all 9 shared coding benchmarks and costs 40% less. Opus 4.8 counters with independently verified scores, adjustable reasoning, and mature production tooling. Full comparison with radar charts and pricing tables.
GPT-5.6 Luna vs GPT-5.4 mini compared across official coding, reasoning, tool-use, multimodal, computer-use and long-context results, plus pricing and a practical routing strategy.
GPT-5.6 Luna vs MiniMax M3 compared across coding, browsing, 1M context, video input, agent workflows, pricing and open-weight deployment. Luna leads published coding rows; M3 brings multimodal value.
GPT-5.6 Luna vs DeepSeek V4 Pro: a sourced comparison of coding, 1M context, reasoning modes, MIT weights, caching, pricing, tools and deployment economics.
GPT-5.6 Luna vs GLM 5.2 compared across coding, reasoning, long context, tools, pricing, licensing and deployment. After Luna's permanent 80% price cut, Luna has the stronger managed capability and economics package; GLM 5.2 brings MIT weights and openness.
GPT-5.6 Terra vs Claude Sonnet 5: nearly identical standard output pricing, 1M+ context, and a close SWE-bench Pro result—yet sharply different terminal scores, tooling, availability, and intro pricing.