Models

Gemini 3 Pro Image vs Kimi K3

Compare Gemini 3 Pro Image from Google 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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Gemini 3 Pro Image
Google · text, image → text

Gemini-3-Pro-Image (Nano Banana Pro) is a high-performance image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro. It delivers enhanced multimodal understanding and real-world semantic reasoning, enabling fast creation of well-structured visual content such as infographics, product sketches, and multi-subject scenes. It can also leverage real-time knowledge through Search grounding. The model excels in text rendering, consistent multi-image blending, and identity preservation, while offering fine-grained creative controls like localized edits, lighting and focus adjustments, camera transformations, and flexible aspect ratios. It’s ideal for rapid design, concept previews, product visualization, and everyday image generation workflows.

Input$2.00 /M
Output$12.00 /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.

Gemini 3 Pro Image
Kimi K3
Input /M
$2.00
$3.00
Output /M
$12.00
$15.00
Cache read /M
$2.00
$0.30
Context length
0
1,048,576
Max output
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1,048,576
Time to First Token
31.0 s
0.9 s
Throughput
52.8 tok/s
73.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinking
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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Cost calculator

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

Gemini 3 Pro Image
$300 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 3 Pro Image, Kimi K3?

Gemini 3 Pro Image: $12.00/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Kimi K3: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Gemini 3 Pro Image at 52.8 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Gemini 3 Pro Image accepts text and image input and supports thinking; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Gemini 3 Pro Image 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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