vs
0:14
overall capability wins (0 ties across 14 scored). Kimi K3 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:5
- Coding0:4
- Tool use0:2
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing3:0
- Speed1:1
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Kimi K3 leads coding (widest gap: +201.6 on WebDev Elo); Kimi K3 offers ~4.0x larger context (1.0M vs 262K); Kimi K3 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K).
- Kimi K3 leads coding (widest gap: +201.6 on WebDev Elo)
- Kimi K3 offers ~4.0x larger context (1.0M vs 262K)
- Kimi K3 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K)
- Kimi K2.7 Code is ~3.5x cheaper on a blended token basis than Kimi K3
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Kimi K2.7 Code
- $1.95
- Kimi K3
- $6.75
Kimi K2.7 Code is about 3.5x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Moonshot
Moonshot
Family
Kimi
Kimi
License
Modified MIT
Kimi K3 License
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Jun 12, 2026
Jul 16, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Moonshot
Moonshot
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text, image, video → text
Specs
Context window
262K
1.0M
Max output
33K
64K
Parameters
1.0T (32B act.)
2.8T (104B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.95
$3
Output $/1M
$4
$15
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$1.71
$6
Speed
tok/s
55
60
TTFT (s)
0.5
0.6
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
89.6
93.5
Humanity's Last Exam
35.0
46.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
39.6
47.6
AA-LCR v1.1
79.3
88.7
CritPt
10.0
23.4
MMMU-Pro
—
80.5
IFBench
63.1
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
67.4
85.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
47.8
59.5
CursorBench
49.7
60.8
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
69.0
WebDev Arena
1,473
1,674
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,485
| Metric | Kimi K2.7 Code | Kimi K3 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Moonshot | Moonshot | — |
| Family | Kimi | Kimi | — |
| License | Modified MIT | Kimi K3 License | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Jun 12, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Moonshot | Moonshot | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text, image, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 262K | 1.0M | B +786K |
| Max output | 33K | 64K | B +31K |
| Parameters | 1.0T (32B act.) | 2.8T (104B act.) | B +2K |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.95 | $3 | A +$2.05 |
| Output $/1M | $4 | $15 | A +$11 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $1.71 | $6 | A +$4.29 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 55 | 60 | B +5.00 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.5 | 0.6 | A +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 89.6 | 93.5 | B +3.9 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 35.0 | 46.9 | B +11.9 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 39.6 | 47.6 | B +8.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 79.3 | 88.7 | B +9.4 pts |
| CritPt | 10.0 | 23.4 | B +13.4 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 80.5 | — |
| IFBench | 63.1 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 67.4 | 85.0 | B +17.6 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 47.8 | 59.5 | B +11.7 pts |
| CursorBench | 49.7 | 60.8 | B +11.1 pts |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 69.0 | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,473 | 1,674 | B +202 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,485 | — |
Kimi K2.7 Code
- Context
- 262K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 1.0T (32B act.)
- Price
- $0.95 / $4
- Speed
- 55 tok/s · 0.5s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Modified MIT
Open-weight coding specialist (1T MoE / 32B active) with text/image/video input — long-horizon agentic software engineering at $0.95/$4; HighSpeed SKU is $1.90/$8 at ~180 tok/s.
Kimi K3
- Context
- 1.0M / 64K out
- Parameters
- 2.8T (104B act.)
- Price
- $3 / $15
- Speed
- 60 tok/s · 0.6s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video → text
- License
- Kimi K3 License
Largest open-weight model (2.8T MoE / 104B active) — official card reports strong reasoning and agentic coding results.
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