o3 vs Kimi K3
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare o3 by OpenAI against Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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o3
Razonador deliberadoel o-series insignia reasoner — sólido en difficult maths, codificación y multipaso análisis.
$2.00 / 1M
$8.00 / 1M
200K tokens
69.1%
Kimi K3
Razonador abierto de 2.8TEl gigante modelo MoE abierto de 2.8T de Moonshot AI con ventana de contexto de 1 millón de tokens y capacidades revolucionarias en codificación.
$0.00 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
1.05M tokens
74.5%
Diferencias Clave de un Vistazo
- Kimi K3 is 1.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Kimi K3 has a larger context window (1M vs 200K tokens).
- o3 is faster at 75 tok/s vs 58 tok/s.
- Kimi K3 leads on SWE-bench coding (74.5% vs 69.1%).
| Característica | o3 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 56 | 93 |
Provider | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $2.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $8.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $1.55 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 200K tokens~300 A4 pages of text | 1.05M tokens~1,573 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 100K | 131K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 75 tok/s | 58 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 69.1% | 74.5% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 76.5% | 79% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.50 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
¿Quién gana en cada área?
At-a-glance decision frameworkPuntuaciones de Benchmarks Verificadas
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.
Latencia y Tiempo de Respuesta
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
Simulador Interactivo de Costos de Tokens
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o3 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- potente deliberate razonamiento con visión soporte
- Significantly cheaper que o1-pro para comparable precisión
- Adjustable razonamiento effort un trade costo against calidad
- sólido un herramienta-augmented codificación agéntica bucles
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Outperformed por GPT-5 en razonamiento y codificación
- pensamiento tokens inflate el effective costo por tarea
Kimi K3 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Largest de pesos abiertos modelo fundacional en existence (2.8T parámetros)
- 1480 LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo rivaling propietario cerrado de frontera leaders
- completo 1M token ventana de contexto paired con masivo 131K max salida tokens
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Extreme hardware prerequisites (distributed multinodo clúster implementación)
- genera extensive razonamiento traces que demand careful token económico management
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | o3 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $1.35 | $2.00 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 48K | 35K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 26K | 18K |
Especificaciones Técnicas
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Característica | o3 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | o3 | kimi-k3 |
| API Protocol | OpenAI Responses API & Chat Completions v1 | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI |
| Release Date | 2025-04 | 2026-07 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | June 2024 | March 2026 |
| Architecture | Reasoning transformer with adjustable thinking effort | Colossus-Scale Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts |
| Parameters | Confidential | 2.8T total (MoE) |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | 10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Flat rate ($2/1M in) across full 200K window | Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales) |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Automatic prefix caching at $0.5/1M (no extra cache-write fee) | Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost) |
| 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 | Native Web Search tool + Hosted Code Interpreter & File Search RAG | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference (DPO) & Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) |
| 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) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 1736 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 6020 GB VRAM (Native BF16) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | OpenAI Preparedness Framework Audited & System Card Published | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control |
| Input Modalities | text, vision | text, vision |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
o3 vs Kimi K3: Respuestas Rápidas (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, o3 or Kimi K3?
Kimi K3 is more intelligent. It scores 93 compared with 56 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
o3 is faster, generating 75 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 $1.55 (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 2.80s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Kimi K3 has a larger context window, supporting 1.05M tokens compared with 200K tokens.
Veredicto
Choose o3 for hard maths, science y codificación agéntica donde precisión supera latencia, or choose Kimi K3 for auditorías de código de contexto largo, análisis de repositorios completos y trabajo agéntico autónomo.
Preguntas frecuentes
Which is cheaper: o3 or Kimi K3?+
o3 costs $2/1M input and $8/1M output tokens, while Kimi K3 costs $0/1M input and $0/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: o3 or Kimi K3?+
o3 supports 200K tokens whereas Kimi K3 supports 1.0M tokens.
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