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Codex vs Kimi Code
Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 1 task where both are listed: Codex is a tier higher in 1 of 1 shared task.
Codex
OpenAI's coding agent for the terminal, IDE, desktop app, web and iOS; the CLI is open source.
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Kind
- Agents
- Runs
- Cloud
- Price
- Free tier · from $8/mo
- Skill level
- Intermediate: some setup or configuration
- Open source
- Yes
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Kimi Code
Moonshot AI's coding agent for Kimi models, available as an open-source CLI, desktop app and VS Code extension.
- Vendor
- Moonshot AI
- Kind
- Agents
- Runs
- Cloud
- Price
- Paid plans
- Skill level
- Intermediate: some setup or configuration
- Open source
- Yes
- Last verified
- 19 Oct 2026
Task by task
| Task | Codex | Kimi Code | Higher tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding Coding agents | A63 on Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (v1.5) · Cloud | B52 on Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (v1.5) · Cloud | Codex |
A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.
Same benchmark, both results
| Benchmark | Codex | Kimi Code | Snapshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (v1.5) Composite index: equal-weight mean of pass@1 (3 attempts/task) on DeepSWE v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0 and SWE-Atlas-QnA, per agent + model, higher is better | 63 | 52 | 19 Oct 2026 |