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GLM 4.5 Vision vs Kimi K3

Compare GLM 4.5 Vision from Z.AI 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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GLM 4.5 Vision
Z.AI · text, image, video → text

GLM-4.5V is a vision-language foundational model designed for multimodal agent applications. Based on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, it has 106 billion parameters and 12 billion active parameters. It delivers outstanding performance in video understanding, image question answering, OCR, and document parsing, and achieves significant improvements in front-end web encoding, basic reasoning, and spatial reasoning.

Input$0.27 /M
Output$0.82 /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.

GLM 4.5 Vision
Kimi K3
Input /M
$0.27
$3.00
Output /M
$0.82
$15.00
Cache read /M
$0.27
$0.30
Context length
64,000
1,048,576
Max output
16,384
1,048,576
Time to First Token
8.4 s
0.9 s
Throughput
81.2 tok/s
73.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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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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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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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
glm-4.5vkimi-k3
1280136014401520
Overall
13541486
Coding
14041531
Math
13591359
Hard prompts
13761505
Instruction following
13421479
Multi-turn
13591499
Creative writing
13111470
Longer query
13411502
Chinese
13471527
English
13811491

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.

GLM 4.5 Vision
$28.77 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: GLM 4.5 Vision, Kimi K3?

GLM 4.5 Vision: $0.82/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; GLM 4.5 Vision: 1404 (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?

GLM 4.5 Vision accepts 64,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 16,384 tokens on GLM 4.5 Vision and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.

Which one generates tokens faster?

GLM 4.5 Vision at 81.2 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?

GLM 4.5 Vision accepts text, image and video input; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call GLM 4.5 Vision 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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