Kimi Allegretto costs $39/mo; Claude Pro costs $20/mo. Kimi's higher price does not buy comfortable headroom because its shared credits drain too quickly.
Claude Pro vs Kimi Allegretto: choose Claude Pro. Measured on Kimi Allegretto, one pass of our fixed task set fits about 60 tasks a week with Kimi K3 256K. Kimi Allegretto costs $39/mo; Claude Pro costs $20/mo. Prices are the providers' own list prices, and the verdict is ours rather than a score.Measured
Our verdict
Choose Claude Pro. Both products can make a good-looking web page, but Kimi's limit runs out too fast for us to recommend it.
Claude Pro includes Opus 5.5 and is the better subscription for coding, writing, and design.
Claude Pro includes Opus 5.5 through Claude Code, the best CLI agent. Opus 5.5 does most of what Fable does on far less of the limit. That leaves little reason to pay for Max just to get Fable. Sonnet 5.5 is now the model for smaller things and simple tasks.
Pros
Opus 5.5 is really good and you can use it a fair bit on the $20 plan
Sonnet 5.5 for smaller things and simple tasks
Claude Code is the best CLI agent
Decent usage limits
Cons
Fable requires the $100 Max plan
Best for People who want the best coding subscription at $20.
How far it goes: we have not measured this plan
The Max 5x scorecards are the closest evidence, minus Fable: that model is Max-only, so the best agent this plan can run is Opus 5.5.
Allegretto gives K3 more credits and parallel agents. The shared limit still runs out before ordinary work is done. K3 has also regressed in our use since release. We do not recommend it.
Pros
Good visual design
Long context
Parallel agent tools
Cons
The limit drains too quickly
K3 has gone backwards in our use
Best for Nobody.
How far it goes: we have not measured this plan
The K3 subject sat out the latest weekly grading run, so there is no current scorecard; see the leaderboard for graded alternatives.
Verdicts and prices are the quiz's versioned editorial catalog, last reviewed 2026-10-01. The plan cards keep measured evidence separate from the recommendation. Any other pair composes on the subscription comparison, and the quiz turns your answers into a recommendation.