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Alicloud Glm 5 vs Kimi K3

Compare Alicloud Glm 5 from Z.AI 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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Alicloud Glm 5
Z.AI · → text

GLM-5 is an advanced, open-source large language model designed for developers tackling the toughest challenges. It excels at long-context reasoning, multi-step tool orchestration, and complex systems engineering, making it the ideal choice for powering sophisticated agents and applications that require high-level cognitive tasks.

Input$0.5634 /M
Output$2.5353 /M
Cache read$0.1127 /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 /M
Output$15 /M
Cache read$0.3 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Alicloud Glm 5
Kimi K3
Input /M
$0.5634
$3
Output /M
$2.5353
$15
Cache read /M
$0.1127
$0.3
Context length
0
1,048,576
Max output
0
1,048,576
Time to First Token
2.0 s
0.9 s
Throughput
54.7 tok/s
73.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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July 16, 2026

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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1420146015001540
Overall
14571486
Coding
14981531
Math
14431443
Hard prompts
14781505
Instruction following
14471479
Multi-turn
14731499
Creative writing
14461470
Longer query
14701502
Chinese
15241527
English
14711491

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.

Alicloud Glm 5
$71.83 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Alicloud Glm 5, Kimi K3?

Alicloud Glm 5: $2.5353/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Kimi K3: 1531; Alicloud Glm 5: 1498 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

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 Alicloud Glm 5 at 54.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

Can I call Alicloud Glm 5 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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