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grok-2-vision-1212 vs kimi-k3

Output tokens cost $9.00 per million on grok-2-vision-1212 and $15.00 per million on kimi-k3. Input tokens cost $1.80 per million on grok-2-vision-1212 and $3.00 per million on kimi-k3. Cached input tokens are billed at $1.80 per million on grok-2-vision-1212 and $0.30 per million on kimi-k3. On the LMArena coding leaderboard grok-2-vision-1212 scores 1359 and kimi-k3 scores 1531.

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grok-2-vision-1212
Grok · text, image → text

grok-2-vision-1212 is the latest vision model in the Grok family, delivering outstanding performance on vision-based tasks and achieving state-of-the-art results in visual mathematical reasoning and document-based question answering. It supports a wide range of visual inputs, including documents, charts, screenshots, and real-world images, making it well-suited for advanced visual understanding and reasoning use cases. The price of calling this model in AIhubMix is ​​10% lower than on the official website.

Input$1.80 /M
Output$9.00 /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.

grok-2-vision-1212
kimi-k3
Input /M
$1.80
$3.00
Output /M
$9.00
$15.00
Cache read /M
$1.80
$0.30
Context length
0
1,048,576
Max output
0
1,048,576
Time to First Token
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12.9 s
Throughput
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18.8 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats

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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LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
grok-2-vision-1212kimi-k3
1260134014201500
Overall
13351486
Coding
13591531
Math
12941294
Hard prompts
13261505
Instruction following
13121479
Multi-turn
13241499
Creative writing
13171470
Longer query
13351502
Chinese
13411527
English
13461491

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.

grok-2-vision-1212
$243 /mo
kimi-k3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: grok-2-vision-1212, kimi-k3?

grok-2-vision-1212: $9.00/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; grok-2-vision-1212: 1359 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

grok-2-vision-1212 accepts text and image input; kimi-k3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call grok-2-vision-1212 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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