Kimi K3 vs Gemini 4 Argon
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI against Gemini 4 Argon by Google across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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Kimi K3
نموذج مفتوح الأوزاننموذج Kimi K3 المقدم من Moonshot AI يوفر نافذة سياق تصل إلى 1.0M رمز، بتكلفة $0 لكل مليون رمز إدخال و$0 لكل مليون رمز إخراج، ومصمم للبرمجة والاستدلال وتطبيقات الأعمال.
$0.00 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
1.05M tokens
74.5%
Gemini 4 Argon
نموذج استدلال عميقنموذج Gemini 4 Argon المقدم من Google يوفر نافذة سياق تصل إلى 1M رمز، بتكلفة $2 لكل مليون رمز إدخال و$10 لكل مليون رمز إخراج، ومصمم للبرمجة والاستدلال وتطبيقات الأعمال.
$2.00 / 1M
$10.00 / 1M
1M tokens
81.9%
أهم الفروقات في لمحة
- Kimi K3 is 1.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Kimi K3 has a larger context window (1M vs 1M tokens).
- Gemini 4 Argon is faster at 115 tok/s vs 58 tok/s.
- Gemini 4 Argon leads on SWE-bench coding (81.9% vs 74.5%).
| Feature | Kimi K3 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 93 | 97 |
Provider | Moonshot AI | |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $0.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $0.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $0.00 / 1M | $1.47 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 1.05M tokens~1,573 A4 pages of text | 1M tokens~1,500 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 131K | 1000K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 58 tok/s | 115 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 74.5% | 81.9% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 79% | 81.5% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.00 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M |
من يتفوق في كل مجال؟
At-a-glance decision frameworkنتائج الاختبارات المعيارية الموثقة
Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.
Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
زمن الاستجابة والسرعة
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
محاكي تكلفة الرموز التفاعلي
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Kimi K3 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- بنية Colossus-Scale Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts متطورة من Moonshot AI مع سعة سياق تبلغ 1.0M رمز
- كفاءة عالية في التكلفة ($0/1M إدخال و$0/1M إخراج) وسرعة استجابة ممتازة
- أداء قوي في اختبارات البرمجة، الاستدلال المنطقي، ودعم اللغات المتعددة
Considerations & Trade-offs
- يتطلب إدارة دقيقة لاستهلاك الرموز عند استخدام نافذة السياق الكاملة
- قد يحتاج إلى ضبط دقيق للتعليمات (Prompt Engineering) في المهام التخصصية المعقدة
Gemini 4 Argon · Strengths & Key Advantages
- بنية Pathways Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts متطورة من Google مع سعة سياق تبلغ 1M رمز
- كفاءة عالية في التكلفة ($2/1M إدخال و$10/1M إخراج) وسرعة استجابة ممتازة
- أداء قوي في اختبارات البرمجة، الاستدلال المنطقي، ودعم اللغات المتعددة
Considerations & Trade-offs
- يتطلب إدارة دقيقة لاستهلاك الرموز عند استخدام نافذة السياق الكاملة
- قد يحتاج إلى ضبط دقيق للتعليمات (Prompt Engineering) في المهام التخصصية المعقدة
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | Kimi K3 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $2.00 | $2.45 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 35K | 75K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 18K | 36K |
المواصفات التقنية
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Feature | Kimi K3 | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | kimi-k3 | models/gemini-4-argon |
| API Protocol | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI | Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK |
| Release Date | 2026-07 | 2026-09 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | March 2026 | June 2026 |
| Architecture | Colossus-Scale Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts | Pathways Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts |
| Parameters | 2.8T total (MoE) | Confidential |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud | 10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales) | Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost) | Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0.1/1M with configurable TTL |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools | Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) | Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 1736 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 6020 GB VRAM (Native BF16) | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) | Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier |
| Input Modalities | text, vision | text, vision, audio, video |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
Kimi K3 vs Gemini 4 Argon: إجابات سريعة (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, Kimi K3 or Gemini 4 Argon?
Gemini 4 Argon is more intelligent. It scores 97 compared with 93 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
Gemini 4 Argon is faster, generating 115 tokens per second compared with 58 tokens per second.
Which model is cheaper to run?
Kimi K3 is cheaper at $0.00 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $1.47 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).
Which model has lower latency?
Kimi K3 has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.72s compared with 0.85s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Kimi K3 has a larger context window, supporting 1.05M tokens compared with 1M tokens.
الحكم النهائي
Choose Kimi K3 for أتمتة الأعمال، تطوير البرمجيات، الوكلاء الأذكياء (ai agents)، وتطبيقات moonshot ai الإنتاجية, or choose Gemini 4 Argon for أتمتة الأعمال، تطوير البرمجيات، الوكلاء الأذكياء (ai agents)، وتطبيقات google الإنتاجية.
الأسئلة الشائعة (FAQ)
Which is cheaper: Kimi K3 or Gemini 4 Argon?+
Kimi K3 costs $0/1M input and $0/1M output tokens, while Gemini 4 Argon costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: Kimi K3 or Gemini 4 Argon?+
Kimi K3 supports 1.0M tokens whereas Gemini 4 Argon supports 1M tokens.
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