Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Sf Kimi K2 Thinking 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.
Kimi K3Sf Kimi K2 ThinkingKimi 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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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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Sf Kimi K2 Thinking: $2.192/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.
Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and Sf Kimi K2 Thinking accepts 256,000 input tokens.
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Sf Kimi K2 Thinking at 42.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
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