In terms of intelligence, Kuroba Kaito and Kudo Shinichi may be the same, but if they are divided into industries, they are different.
Kudo Shinichi’s words often appear at the core of things. Most of them are murder cases, so his personal psychological quality is still quite weak. In addition, his father taught them these special skills in Hawaii, USA. Therefore, in the criminal police team, psychological state, inference level, due to long-term processing procedures, Kudo Shinichi's sensitivity to these things is very high. There is also a level of observation of key points. In this regard, Kuroba Kaito may be better than Kudo Shinichi. For example, in the theatrical version of the anime "Sunflowers of Karma", Kaito Kidd can quickly discover the criminal's purpose and use his actions to protect Van Gogh's sunflowers. At the same time, he also claims to "steal" through push notifications. His behavior forces the criminal to change his behavior. The premise for doing this is that he observes different details, and Kudo is more like worrying about gains and losses, following the clues left by Kaito Kidd.
The shortcomings of Kuroba Kaito depend on their "level of on-the-spot reaction". In fact, his reaction on the spot was definitely not bad, at least it was better than those criminals who were forced to tell the truth by Kudo's few words. The key reason why this level is slightly insufficient is that Kuroba Kaito actually makes detailed and meticulous preparations for every theft, and he is particularly confident in his own plan. He is easily fooled and when people want to catch him, he will reveal his loopholes. I don’t think it’s too difficult to find out. Many times Kaitou Kidd seems to have played a trick on Detective Conan. I think he ultimately escaped through technological means or Detective Conan’s “god teammates”. If his on-the-spot reaction had been stronger, he would have escaped in the end. The plan was temporarily changed before Detective Conan happened, and maybe Detective Conan couldn't help him.
In the battle between Conan and Kidd, which is actually Kuroba Kaito and Kudo Shinichi, it will be easy to find that most of the time it was Kaitou Kidd who finally succeeded, but Kaitou Kidd was not trying to steal. Stealing is more like a "righteous thief", and Kudo can only touch the edge of Kaito's cloak every time, and it is difficult to catch him in the true sense. And there seems to be a very small number of people who have been caught by Detective Conan multiple times or were deliberately added to the water by Kaitou Kidd. However, who would have thought that Kaitou Kidd was pretending to be calm. Looking at it from this point of view, Kaitou Kidd is actually smaller than Kudo, but if it is a completely physical Kudo, it is not easy to fail to grasp Kaitou Kidd many times due to "insufficient physical fitness", so there is a high probability that he is still a It's a 50-50 situation.