vs
4:0
overall capability wins (1 ties across 5 scored). Kimi K3 leads overall.
- Reasoning3:0
- Specs1:0
Verdict
Kimi K3 edges reasoning & knowledge.
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Kimi K3
- $6.75
- Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
- -
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Moonshot
Moonshot
Family
Kimi
Kimi
License
Kimi K3 License
MIT
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Jul 16, 2026
Oct 30, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Moonshot
No primary API price listed
Modalities
text, image, video → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
1.0M
1.0M
Max output
64K
-
Parameters
2.8T (104B act.)
48B (3B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$3
—
Output $/1M
$15
—
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$6
-
Speed
tok/s
60
-
TTFT (s)
0.6
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
93.5
41.2
Humanity's Last Exam
46.9
2.5
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
47.6
—
AA-LCR v1.1
88.7
28.0
CritPt
23.4
—
MMMU-Pro
80.5
—
IFBench
—
28.1
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
85.0
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
59.5
—
CursorBench
60.8
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
69.0
—
WebDev Arena
1,674
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,485
—
| Metric | Kimi K3 | Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Moonshot | Moonshot | — |
| Family | Kimi | Kimi | — |
| License | Kimi K3 License | MIT | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Jul 16, 2026 | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Moonshot | No primary API price listed | — |
| Modalities | text, image, video → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.0M | tie |
| Max output | 64K | - | — |
| Parameters | 2.8T (104B act.) | 48B (3B act.) | A +3K |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $3 | — | — |
| Output $/1M | $15 | — | — |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $6 | - | — |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 60 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 0.6 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 93.5 | 41.2 | A +52.3 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 46.9 | 2.5 | A +44.4 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 47.6 | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 88.7 | 28.0 | A +60.7 pts |
| CritPt | 23.4 | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 80.5 | — | — |
| IFBench | — | 28.1 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 85.0 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 59.5 | — | — |
| CursorBench | 60.8 | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 69.0 | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,674 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,485 | — | — |
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.
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
- Context
- 1.0M
- Parameters
- 48B (3B act.)
- Price
- —
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- MIT
Moonshot AI's hybrid linear-attention MoE (48B total / 3B active) pairing Kimi Delta Attention with sparse global attention for cheaper long-context (up to 1M token) inference; no hosted API yet.
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