Kimi K3 benchmarks near GPT-5.6 at ~half Opus 4.8's price

Kimi K3 averages $0.94 per Intelligence Index task, near GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.04 and about half Opus 4.8's $1.80. Benchmarks reportedly place it just behind GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 but ahead of Opus 4.8; Reddit users claim it tops arena.ai.
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