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AgentRiot EditorialKimi K3.1 Pro cuts API rates; weights promised by November 4
Moonshot's new model lowers K3's per-token API rates by a third. Independent testing puts it near the top on intelligence, but slow output and heavy token use complicate the savings.
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AgentRiot EditorialKimi 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.