Models

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview vs Kimi K3

Output tokens cost $12.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $15.00 per million on Kimi K3. Input tokens cost $2.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $3.00 per million on Kimi K3. Cached input tokens are billed at $2.00 per million on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and $0.30 per million on Kimi K3. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 2.4s on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and 0.9s on Kimi K3. Measured output throughput is 101.3 tok/s on Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview and 73.1 tok/s on Kimi K3.

GoogleGemini 3 Pro Image PreviewMoonshot AIKimi K3
Google logo
Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview
Google · text, image → text

Gemini-3-Pro-Image-Preview (Nano Banana Pro) is a high-performance image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro. It delivers enhanced multimodal understanding and real-world semantic reasoning, enabling fast creation of well-structured visual content such as infographics, product sketches, and multi-subject scenes. It can also leverage real-time knowledge through Search grounding. The model excels in text rendering, consistent multi-image blending, and identity preservation, while offering fine-grained creative controls like localized edits, lighting and focus adjustments, camera transformations, and flexible aspect ratios. It’s ideal for rapid design, concept previews, product visualization, and everyday image generation workflows.

Input$2.00 /M
Output$12.00 /M
Moonshot AI logo
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

Pricing & Specifications

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

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview
Kimi K3
Input /M
$2.00
$3.00
Output /M
$12.00
$15.00
Cache read /M
$2.00
$0.30
Context length
0
1,048,576
Max output
0
1,048,576
Time to First Token
2.4 s
0.9 s
Throughput
101.3 tok/s
73.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinking
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
-
-

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.

gemini-3-pro-image-previewkimi-k3

Tokens / day

-

Requests / day

-

Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

gemini-3-pro-image-previewkimi-k3

Throughput (tok/s)

-

TTFT (s)

-

Uptime (%)

-

Cost calculator

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

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview
$300 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview, Kimi K3?

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview: $12.00/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/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.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview 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 3 Pro Image Preview accepts text and image input and supports thinking; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview 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.

Popular comparisons

Related model match-ups readers also look at.