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Kimi K3 vs Solar Pro4

Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Solar Pro4 from Upstage 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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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$2.84 /M
Output$14.2 /M
Cache read$0.284 /M
75% off
Upstage logo
Solar Pro4
Upstage · text → text

Input$0.3$0.075 /M
Output$1.2$0.3 /M
Cache read$0.06$0.015 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Kimi K3
Solar Pro4
Input /M
$2.84
$0.3$0.075−75%
Output /M
$14.2
$1.2$0.3−75%
Cache read /M
$0.284
$0.06$0.015−75%
Context length
1,048,576
524,288
Max output
1,048,576
131,072
Time to First Token
0.9 s
0.6 s
Throughput
80.9 tok/s
5.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
long context
API Formats
Released
July 16, 2026
August 6, 2026

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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TTFT (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
kimi-k3solar-pro4
1260134014201500
Overall
13771487
Coding
14471447
Hard prompts
14051405
Instruction following
13621362
Multi-turn
13931393
Creative writing
12881288
Longer query
13831383
English
14081408
WebDev Arena
kimi-k3solar-pro4
1340144015401640
Overall
13711655
React
13571357
HTML
13941394
Gaming
13561356
Simulations
13861386
Data analytics
13581358

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.

Solar Pro4
$36$9.00 /mo
Kimi K3
$383 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Kimi K3, Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4: $0.3/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $14.2/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Solar Pro4: 0.6s 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?

Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and Solar Pro4 accepts 524,288 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 131,072 tokens on Solar Pro4.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Kimi K3 at 80.9 tok/s and Solar Pro4 at 5.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; Solar Pro4 accepts text input and supports long context.

Can I call Kimi K3 and Solar Pro4 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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