Models

Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct vs Kimi K3

Compare Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct from Microsoft and Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct
Microsoft · text → text

Microsoft's latest model

Input$0.12 /M
Output$0.48 /M
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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · text, image, video → text

Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.

Input$3.00 /M
Output$15.00 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct
Kimi K3
Input /M
$0.12
$3.00
Output /M
$0.48
$15.00
Cache read /M
$0.12
$0.30
Context length
128,000
1,048,576
Max output
4,000
1,048,576
Time to First Token
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0.9 s
Throughput
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73.1 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
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1180128013801480
Overall
12561486
Coding
13061531
Math
12651265
Hard prompts
12781505
Instruction following
12451479
Multi-turn
12411499
Creative writing
12101470
Longer query
12661502
Chinese
12671527
English
12721491

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct
$14.40 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct, Kimi K3?

Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct: $0.48/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Kimi K3: 1531; Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct: 1306 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

How large is each context window?

Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct accepts 128,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 4,000 tokens on Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct accepts text input; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Aihub Phi 4 Mini Instruct and Kimi K3 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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