Whisper Large v3 Turbo vs Kimi K3
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare Whisper Large v3 Turbo by OpenAI against Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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Whisper Large v3 Turbo
Модель речи и аудиоWhisper Large v3 Turbo от OpenAI — специализированная ИИ-модель для естественного синтеза речи, обработки аудио в реальном времени и транскрибации, обеспечивающая контекстное окно 0K, скорость 180 ток/с и индекс интеллекта 42/100 (по цене $
$0.00 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
448 tokens
36%
Kimi K3
Открытая логическая модельKimi K3 от Moonshot AI — специализированная ИИ-модель для цепочек рассуждений (Chain-of-Thought) с открытыми весами и высокой эффективностью, обеспечивающая контекстное окно 1.0M, скорость 58 ток/с и индекс интеллекта 93/100 (бесплатным дос
$0.00 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
1.05M tokens
74.5%
Ключевые отличия кратко
- Both models cost the same under this workload — choose on capability, not price.
- Kimi K3 has a larger context window (1M vs 0K tokens).
- Whisper Large v3 Turbo is faster at 180 tok/s vs 58 tok/s.
- Kimi K3 leads on SWE-bench coding (74.5% vs 36.0%).
| Feature | Whisper Large v3 Turbo | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 42 | 93 |
Provider | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $0.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $0.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $0.00 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 448 tokens~1 A4 pages of text | 1.05M tokens~1,573 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 0K | 131K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 180 tok/s | 58 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 36% | 74.5% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 46% | 79% |
Кто лидирует в каждой категории?
At-a-glance decision frameworkРезультаты проверенных бенчмарков
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.
Задержка и скорость ответа
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
Интерактивный калькулятор стоимости токенов
Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.
Whisper Large v3 Turbo · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Контекстное окно 0K и генерация до 0K выходных токенов за ответ (SWE-bench Verified 36% · GPQA Diamond 46%)
- Высокая скорость генерации 180 токенов/сек при задержке до первого токена (TTFT) всего 120 мс
- Открытые веса модели (809M) для локального хостинга и дообучения через vLLM, SGLang или Ollama
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Для локального запуска в полной точности требуются GPU-серверы с достаточным объемом видеопамяти (VRAM)
- В сверхсложных научных доказательствах специализированные тяжелые модели рассуждения могут показывать большую глубину
Kimi K3 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Контекстное окно 1.0M и генерация до 131K выходных токенов за ответ (SWE-bench Verified 74.5% · GPQA Diamond 79%)
- Высокая скорость генерации 58 токенов/сек при задержке до первого токена (TTFT) всего 720 мс
- Открытые веса модели (2.8T total (MoE)) для локального хостинга и дообучения через vLLM, SGLang или Ollama
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Для локального запуска в полной точности требуются GPU-серверы с достаточным объемом видеопамяти (VRAM)
- В сверхсложных научных доказательствах специализированные тяжелые модели рассуждения могут показывать большую глубину
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | Whisper Large v3 Turbo | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $0.03 | $2.00 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 3K | 35K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 0K | 18K |
Технические характеристики
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Feature | Whisper Large v3 Turbo | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | whisper-large-v3-turbo | kimi-k3 |
| API Protocol | OpenAI Responses API & Chat Completions v1 | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI |
| Release Date | 2024-10 | 2026-07 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | 2024 (audio corpus) | March 2026 |
| Architecture | Distilled encoder-decoder speech transformer | Colossus-Scale Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts |
| Parameters | 809M | 2.8T total (MoE) |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud | 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 ($0.0006/1M in) across full 0K window | Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales) |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Automatic prefix caching at $0/1M (no extra cache-write fee) | Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost) |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | Text-only completion (No GUI action loop) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Prompt-based JSON extraction only | 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 | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 2 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 4 GB VRAM (Native BF16) | 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) | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control |
| Input Modalities | audio | text, vision |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
Whisper Large v3 Turbo vs Kimi K3: Быстрые ответы (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, Whisper Large v3 Turbo or Kimi K3?
Kimi K3 is more intelligent. It scores 93 compared with 42 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
Whisper Large v3 Turbo is faster, generating 180 tokens per second compared with 58 tokens per second.
Which model has lower latency?
Whisper Large v3 Turbo has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.12s compared with 0.72s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Kimi K3 has a larger context window, supporting 1.05M tokens compared with 448 tokens.
Вердикт
Choose Whisper Large v3 Turbo for оптимально для естественного синтеза речи, обработки аудио в реальном времени и транскрибации, корпоративных rag-пайплайнов и масштабируемых api-сервисов., or choose Kimi K3 for оптимально для цепочек рассуждений (chain-of-thought) с открытыми весами и высокой эффективностью, корпоративных rag-пайплайнов и масштабируемых api-сервисов..
Часто задаваемые вопросы (FAQ)
Which is cheaper: Whisper Large v3 Turbo or Kimi K3?+
Whisper Large v3 Turbo costs $0.0006/1M input and $0/1M output tokens, while Kimi K3 costs $0/1M input and $0/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: Whisper Large v3 Turbo or Kimi K3?+
Whisper Large v3 Turbo supports 0K tokens whereas Kimi K3 supports 1.0M tokens.
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