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Gemini 2.5 Pro Search vs Kimi K3

Output tokens cost $10.00 per million on Gemini 2.5 Pro Search and $15.00 per million on Kimi K3. Input tokens cost $1.25 per million on Gemini 2.5 Pro Search and $3.00 per million on Kimi K3. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.13 per million on Gemini 2.5 Pro Search and $0.30 per million on Kimi K3. Context lengths are 1,048,576 tokens on Gemini 2.5 Pro Search and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 3.2s on Gemini 2.5 Pro Search and 0.9s on Kimi K3. Measured output throughput is 101.3 tok/s on Gemini 2.5 Pro Search and 73.1 tok/s on Kimi K3. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Gemini 2.5 Pro Search scores 1465 and Kimi K3 scores 1531.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro Search
Google · text, image, audio, video, pdf → text

gemini-2.5-pro-search integrates Google's official search functionality; the search feature will have an additional separate fee log directly incorporated into the scoring, with detailed logs not displayed; this will be fixed and displayed later; only supports OpenAI-compatible formats for invocation, does not support Gemini SDK; for Gemini's native SDK, please set parameters directly using the official search parameters.

Input$1.25 /M
Output$10.00 /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$3.00 /M
Output$15.00 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

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

Gemini 2.5 Pro Search
Kimi K3
Input /M
$1.25
$3.00
Output /M
$10.00
$15.00
Cache read /M
$0.13
$0.30
Context length
1,048,576
1,048,576
Max output
65,536
1,048,576
Time to First Token
3.2 s
0.9 s
Throughput
101.3 tok/s
73.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimageaudiovideopdf
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingwebtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
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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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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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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
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Overall
14461486
Coding
14651531
Math
14421442
Hard prompts
14581505
Instruction following
14391479
Multi-turn
14481499
Creative writing
14441470
Longer query
14571502
Chinese
14901527
English
14481491

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.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Search
$225 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 2.5 Pro Search, Kimi K3?

Gemini 2.5 Pro Search: $10.00/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; Gemini 2.5 Pro Search: 1465 (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.

How large is each context window?

Gemini 2.5 Pro Search accepts 1,048,576 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 2.5 Pro Search and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 2.5 Pro Search at 101.3 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?

Gemini 2.5 Pro Search accepts text, image, audio, video and PDF input and supports thinking, web search, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Gemini 2.5 Pro Search 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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