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AI labs compared · October 2026

Amazon vs Moonshot AI: which AI lab is ahead?

Each lab's best model on sale goes head to head on every kind of work we measure, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. 11 models in all; a lab is only as good as the model you would actually pick from it.

4 models on sale with our resultsAmazon Best: Nova 2 Lite · newest: Nova 2 Lite
7 models on sale with our resultsMoonshot AI Best: Kimi K3 · newest: Kimi K3
Amazon wins 1Moonshot AI wins 3

Kinds of work led by each lab's best model there, of the 4 both are measured on.

Results as of 8 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-08-4199ce0620fe). Models on sale means listed on OpenRouter today.

Amazon or Moonshot AI? The short answer

Moonshot AI is ahead: its best models beat Amazon's in 3 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on; Amazon leads in 1.

  • Pick Amazon for sticking to the facts.
  • Pick Moonshot AI for agents and tool use, reasoning and knowledge and writing.
  • Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is #10 on our overall leaderboard; no Amazon model has enough of our results to be ranked there yet.
  • Prices start at $0.061 per million tokens for Amazon (Nova Micro 1.0) and $1.00 for Moonshot AI (Kimi K2 (0711)).

Head to head

13.4Nova 2 Lite
Best Intelligence Index
43.6Kimi K3
$0.85Nova 2 Lite
Flagship price, per million tokens
$6.00Kimi K3
$0.061Nova Micro 1.0
Cheapest model, per million tokens
$1.00Kimi K2 (0711)
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Models on sale with our results
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Each line names the model behind the number. Prices are blended, three input tokens to one output, at the developer's list price where we have read it; see every model's price. Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis; overall score from our leaderboard.

Which lab is better for what

For each kind of work, each lab's best model there and its rank among every model on sale. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Product listingsTurning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live not measured 13 of 20Kimi K3
Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is not measured 8 of 19Kimi K3
Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending not measured 8 of 19Kimi K3
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 133 of 164Nova 2 Lite 19 of 164Kimi K2 (0711)
Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects not measured 24 of 51Kimi K3
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 116 of 198Nova 2 Lite 15 of 198Kimi K3
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 169 of 188Nova 2 Lite 11 of 188Kimi K3
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 9 of 152Nova Pro 1.0 28 of 152Kimi K3
Speed under pressureGood decisions against a real clock (fast chess) not measured 19 of 22Kimi K3

Every model, by intelligence and price

Each dot is a model on sale with an Intelligence Index from Artificial Analysis. Up is smarter; left is cheaper. Hover or tap a dot for its name.

AmazonMoonshot AI

01020304050 $0.01$0.1$1$10 Price per million tokens, blended (log scale) Intelligence Index Kimi K3Kimi K2.6Kimi K2.7 CodeKimi K2.5Kimi K2 ThinkingKimi K2 (0905)

On our overall leaderboard

The 1 of their models we rank overall: one score out of 100 across everything we publish (how the score works). Only models with enough of our own results are ranked.

  1. #10Kimi K350

Benchmark by benchmark

The headline result of every benchmark both labs have models on: each lab's best model and its rank among the models on sale. Green marks the better rank.

MeasureAmazonMoonshot AI
Agents and tool use
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) V4 · Overall accuracy · BFCL% correct, higher is better 27.1%Nova 2 Lite · 32 of 3859.1%Kimi K2 (0711) · 6 of 38
Artificial Analysis · Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 16.1%Nova 2 Lite · 87 of 11585.0%Kimi K3 · 11 of 115
Reasoning and knowledge
Artificial Analysis · Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 13.4Nova 2 Lite · 119 of 19843.6Kimi K3 · 16 of 198
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 11.6%Nova 2 Lite · 124 of 19746.9%Kimi K3 · 16 of 197
Artificial Analysis · GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 81.1%Nova 2 Lite · 92 of 18793.5%Kimi K3 · 10 of 187
Sticking to the facts
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard · Hallucination rate · Vectara% of summaries, lower is better 5.1%Nova 2 Lite · 6 of 7910.8%Kimi K2.6 · 52 of 79
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 1,380Nova 2 Lite · 103 of 1131,472Kimi K3 · 16 of 113
Writing
Arena (formerly LMArena) · Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 1,335Nova 2 Lite · 138 of 1661,488Kimi K3 · 11 of 166
UGI Leaderboard · Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 23.5Nova 2 Lite · 131 of 13864.4Kimi K2.6 · 25 of 138

Quick answers

Is Amazon or Moonshot AI better?

Moonshot AI is ahead: its best models beat Amazon's in 3 of the 4 kinds of work both are measured on; Amazon leads in 1.

What is Amazon's best model?

Nova 2 Lite: 13.4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

What is Moonshot AI's best model?

Kimi K3: #10 on the Spring Prompt overall leaderboard and 43.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Amazon or Moonshot AI?

Moonshot AI: its best model there, Kimi K2 (0711), ranks 19 of 164 models on sale, against 133 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Amazon or Moonshot AI?

Moonshot AI: its best model there, Kimi K3, ranks 15 of 198 models on sale, against 116 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is better for writing, Amazon or Moonshot AI?

Moonshot AI: its best model there, Kimi K3, ranks 11 of 188 models on sale, against 169 for Amazon's Nova 2 Lite.

Which is cheaper, Amazon or Moonshot AI?

Amazon's cheapest model with results, Nova Micro 1.0, costs $0.061 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $1.00 for Kimi K2 (0711) from Moonshot AI.

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