AnalysisAI ModelsJuly 17, 2026
Kimi K3 is 4.5x the price of GPT 5.6 Sol Medium

Kimi K3's per-token price is 4.5 times that of GPT 5.6 Sol Medium, but Kimi's higher token usage brings the total answer cost close to Claude Opus 4.8 Max.
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