Output tokens cost $9.00 per million on Gemini 3.5 Flash and $15.00 per million on Kimi K3. Input tokens cost $1.50 per million on Gemini 3.5 Flash and $3.00 per million on Kimi K3. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.15 per million on Gemini 3.5 Flash and $0.30 per million on Kimi K3. Context lengths are 1,000,000 tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 4.0s on Gemini 3.5 Flash and 0.9s on Kimi K3. Measured output throughput is 118.9 tok/s on Gemini 3.5 Flash and 73.1 tok/s on Kimi K3. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 1507 and Kimi K3 scores 1531.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Kimi K3Gemini 3.5 Flash provides sustained frontier-level intelligence optimized for real-world tasks at a higher speed and lower cost. Designed for the agentic era, it excels at sub-agent deployment, multi-step workflows, and long-horizon tasks at scale. This model is particularly effective for rapid agentic loops involving complex coding cycles and iterations.
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.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash: $9.00/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Kimi K3: 1531; Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1507 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
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.
Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts 1,000,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Gemini 3.5 Flash and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.
Gemini 3.5 Flash at 118.9 tok/s and Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, deep search and long context; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.
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