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
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Llama 4 Scout
Kimi K3 vs Llama 4 Scout
Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Llama 4 Scout from Llama 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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Llama 4 Scout
Llama · text, image → text
Llama 4 Scout is a highly efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Meta, activating 17B out of 109B total parameters per inference. It natively supports multimodal input (text and image) and multilingual output (text and code) across 12 languages. Designed for assistant-style interaction and visual reasoning, Scout features a massive 10-million-token context window. It is instruction-tuned for tasks like multilingual chat and image understanding and is released under the Llama 4 Community License for local or commercial deployment.
Input$0.20 /M
Output$0.20 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Kimi K3
Llama 4 Scout
Input /M
$3.00
$0.20
Output /M
$15.00
$0.20
Cache read /M
$0.30
$0.20
Context length
1,048,576
131,000
Max output
1,048,576
131,000
Time to First Token
0.9 s
0.3 s
Throughput
73.1 tok/s
2637.0 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction 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
kimi-k3llama-4-scout
1260134014201500
Overall
13231486
Coding
13621531
Math
13091309
Hard prompts
13301505
Instruction following
13001479
Multi-turn
13201499
Creative writing
12901470
Longer query
13271502
Chinese
13151527
English
13411491
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.
Llama 4 Scout
$15.00 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Kimi K3, Llama 4 Scout?
Llama 4 Scout: $0.20/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; Llama 4 Scout: 1362 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Which responds faster?
Llama 4 Scout: 0.3s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and Llama 4 Scout accepts 131,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 131,000 tokens on Llama 4 Scout.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Llama 4 Scout at 2637.0 tok/s and Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; Llama 4 Scout accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call Kimi K3 and Llama 4 Scout 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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