Compare Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite from Google and Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Kimi K3Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is a low-latency, cost-effective multimodal model optimized for high-throughput, low-cost execution for subagent tasks and document parsing. The model supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, and is designed for high-volume agentic workflows, simple data extraction, and applications where latency and API cost are the primary constraints.
Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: $2.5/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $14.2/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Kimi K3: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts 1,048,576 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite at 214.3 tok/s and Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search and long context; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.
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