Output tokens cost $0.66 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and $15.00 per million on Kimi K3. Input tokens cost $0.08 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and $3.00 per million on Kimi K3. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.08 per million on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and $0.30 per million on Kimi K3. Context lengths are 256,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 0.6s on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and 0.9s on Kimi K3. Measured output throughput is 56.0 tok/s on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and 73.1 tok/s on Kimi K3.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite
Kimi K3Doubao-Seed-1.6-lite is a brand new multimodal deep reasoning model that supports adjustable reasoning effort, with four modes: Minimal, Low, Medium, and High. It offers better cost performance, making it the best choice for common tasks, with a context window of up to 256k.
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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Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite: $0.66/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite accepts 256,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite at 56.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Doubao Seed 1.6 Lite accepts text, image and video input and supports function calling and structured outputs; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.
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