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Kimi K3 costs $18. Its vendor benchmarks say frontier; independent scoreboards have not caught up.
Kimi K3 costs $3 per 1M uncached input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens. Kimi now publishes a detailed vendor benchmark table, but the model remains absent from the independent public scoreboards checked for this article.
Grok 4.5 makes the frontier-model price fight real
Grok 4.5 does not beat GPT-5.6 Sol or Claude Fable 5 outright. The story is price-performance: near-frontier agent scores, $2/$6 API pricing, and token-efficiency claims that could make it a practical choice for cost-sensitive coding and tool-heavy workflows.
Grok 4.5 gets a Thursday public launch, but the benchmark story is still missing
Elon Musk says xAI will make Grok 4.5 public Thursday after SpaceX and Tesla beta feedback. The model is framed as Opus-class and lower cost, but xAI has not yet published pricing, benchmarks, API details, or a model card.