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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Kimi K3

Compare Claude Sonnet 5.5 from Anthropic 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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Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the next-generation product in Anthropic’s Sonnet model series; Claude Sonnet 5.5 offers the best balance between speed and intelligence. The following five major changes will affect code currently running on Claude Sonnet 5: 1. Using "between_tools" can disable up-front thinking. 2. Forcing the use of tools will result in an error. 3. Thinking content blocks are bound to the model and the conversation. 4. On the Claude API and Google Cloud, the older "computer_20251124" computer tool usage is no longer accepted. 5. The advisor tool will refuse to accept Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 4.7, and Claude Sonnet 5 as advisor models. Use between_tools to disable up-front thinking. Forcing tool use will return an error. Thinking blocks are bound to the model and the conversation. On the Claude API and Google Cloud, early computer_20251124 computer tool usage is no longer accepted. The advisor tool no longer accepts Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 4.7, and Claude Sonnet 5 as advisors.

Input$2 /M
Output$10 /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.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
Kimi K3
Input /M
$2
$3
Output /M
$10
$15
Cache read /M
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$0.3
Context length
1,000,000
1,048,576
Max output
0
1,048,576
Time to First Token
3.5 s
0.9 s
Throughput
107.6 tok/s
73.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
September 29, 2026
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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Cost calculator

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

Claude Sonnet 5.5
$270 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Sonnet 5.5, Kimi K3?

Claude Sonnet 5.5: $10/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15/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.

How large is each context window?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts 1,000,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 at 107.6 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?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts text, image and PDF input; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Sonnet 5.5 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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