Output tokens cost $0.02 per million on DeepSeek-OCR and $15.00 per million on kimi-k3. Input tokens cost $0.02 per million on DeepSeek-OCR and $3.00 per million on kimi-k3. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.02 per million on DeepSeek-OCR and $0.30 per million on kimi-k3. Context lengths are 8,000 tokens on DeepSeek-OCR and 1,048,576 tokens on kimi-k3. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.7s on DeepSeek-OCR and 12.9s on kimi-k3. Measured output throughput is 105.2 tok/s on DeepSeek-OCR and 18.8 tok/s on kimi-k3.
DeepSeek-OCR
kimi-k3DeepSeek-OCR is a vision-language model launched by DeepSeek AI, focusing on optical character recognition (OCR) and “contextual optical compression.” The model is designed to explore the limits of compressing contextual information from images, efficiently processing documents and converting them into structured text formats such as Markdown. The model requires an image as input.
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.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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DeepSeek-OCR: $0.02/M output tokens; kimi-k3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek-OCR: 1.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek-OCR accepts 8,000 and kimi-k3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens.
DeepSeek-OCR at 105.2 tok/s and kimi-k3 at 18.8 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek-OCR accepts text and image input; kimi-k3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.
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