Kimi K3 (max) vs. Step 3.7 Flash

Vergleich von Kimi K3 (max) und Step 3.7 Flash nach Intelligenz, Preis, Geschwindigkeit, Kontextfenster und weiteren Merkmalen.

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Wichtigste Ergebnisse

Intelligenz

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Geschwindigkeit

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Kosten pro Aufgabe

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Modellvergleich

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Kimi K3 (max)
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Step 3.7 Flash
Intelligence Index
57
30
Kimi K3 (max) ist intelligenter als Step 3.7 Flash
Preis pro 1 Mio. Tokens
$2.31
$0.18
Step 3.7 Flash ist günstiger als Kimi K3 (max)
Ausgabegeschwindigkeit
38 Tokens/s
364 Tokens/s
Step 3.7 Flash ist schneller als Kimi K3 (max)
Zeit bis zum ersten Token
3.06 s
0.96 s
Step 3.7 Flash antwortet schneller als Kimi K3 (max)
Kontextfenster
1049k Tokens~1.573 A4-Seiten in Arial mit Schriftgröße 12
262k Tokens~393 A4-Seiten in Arial mit Schriftgröße 12
Kimi K3 (max) hat ein größeres Kontextfenster als Step 3.7 Flash
Veröffentlichungsdatum
Juli 2026
Mai 2026
Kimi K3 (max) hat ein neueres Veröffentlichungsdatum als Step 3.7 Flash
Parameter
2800B, davon 104B bei der Inferenz aktiv
198B, davon 11B bei der Inferenz aktiv
Kimi K3 (max) hat mehr Parameter als Step 3.7 Flash
Reasoning
Ja
Ja
Kimi K3 (max) und Step 3.7 Flash sind Reasoning-Modelle
Unterstützung für Bildeingaben
Ja
Ja
Kimi K3 (max) und Step 3.7 Flash unterstützen Bildeingaben
Offene Gewichte
Ja
Ja
Kimi K3 (max) und Step 3.7 Flash haben offene Gewichte
Lizenz
Kimi K3 License
Apache 2.0
Lizenz erlaubt uneingeschränkte kommerzielle Nutzung
Nein
Ja
Die Lizenz von Step 3.7 Flash erlaubt uneingeschränkte kommerzielle Nutzung, die von Kimi K3 (max) dagegen nicht

Intelligenz

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR
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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 includes: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR
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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 includes: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Indicates whether the model weights are available. Models are labelled as 'Commercial Use Restricted' if the weights are available but commercial use is limited (typically requires obtaining a paid license).

Benchmarks

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better
GDPval-AA v2

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

𝜏³-Banking

Agentic tool use

Terminal-Bench v2.1

Agentic coding & terminal use

SciCode

Coding

Humanity's Last Exam

Reasoning & knowledge

GPQA Diamond

Scientific reasoning

CritPt

Physics reasoning

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

Knowledge

AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate

1 - hallucination rate

AA-LCR

Long context reasoning

AA-Briefcase

Agentic knowledge work, Elo

AutomationBench-AA

Agentic SaaS workflows

Harvey LAB-AA

Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate

EnterpriseOps-Gym-AANew

Agentic business operations

IFBench

Instruction following

APEX-Agents-AA

Long-horizon agentic tasks

ITBench-AA

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

MMMU-Pro

Visual reasoning

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While model intelligence generally translates across use cases, specific evaluations may be more relevant for certain use cases.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 includes: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

AA-Briefcase

AA-Briefcase Elo

AA-Briefcase is an agentic knowledge work benchmark developed by Artificial Analysis. AA-Briefcase Elo is a combined metric that aggregates rubric pass rate, analytical quality Elo and presentation Elo · Higher is better
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AA-Briefcase Elo is a combined metric that aggregates analytical quality Elo, presentation Elo, and rubric pass rate, with rubric performance converted into Elo via synthetic head-to-head matches. Elo and 95% confidence interval bounds are clamped at 0.

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct.
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AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct.

Openness Index

Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score

Openness Index assesses model openness on a 0 to 100 normalized scale (higher is more open)
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Vergleiche des Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line
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Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 includes: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Tokenverbrauch

Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average number of output tokens used to run one task in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
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The number of tokens required per Intelligence Index task. This is calculated by multiplying the output tokens per eval by the relative weights of each benchmark in the Intelligence Index, then dividing by task count (excluding repeats).

Kosten

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task, segmented by token type. Lower is better
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Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
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The cost to run the evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, calculated using the model's input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices and the number of tokens used across evaluations (excluding repeats).

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens)
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Price per token for cached prompts (previously processed), typically offering a significant discount compared to regular input price, represented as USD per million tokens. The values shown here are the cache hit price; cache write and cache storage are billed separately and vary by provider — see "Cache pricing by provider" for detail.

Kontextfenster

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better
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Larger context windows are relevant to RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM workflows which typically involve reasoning and information retrieval of large amounts of data.

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Geschwindigkeit

Gemessen anhand der Ausgabegeschwindigkeit (Tokens pro Sekunde)

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better
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Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average decode time (minutes) per task; excludes TTFT and overhead time · Lower is better
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The weighted average time (seconds) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task. This is calculated by dividing output tokens per task by output speed, weighted by the relative weights of each benchmark in the Intelligence Index.

Latenz

Gemessen anhand der Zeit (in Sekunden) bis zum ersten Token

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

Seconds to first answer token received · Accounts for reasoning model 'thinking' time
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Time to first answer token received, in seconds, after API request sent. For reasoning models, this includes the 'thinking' time of the model before providing an answer. For models which do not support streaming, this represents time to receive the completion.

Ende-zu-Ende-Antwortzeit

Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, including reasoning model 'thinking' time · Lower is better
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Seconds to receive a 500 token response. Key components:

  • Input time: Time to receive the first response token
  • Thinking time (only for reasoning models): Time reasoning models spend outputting tokens to reason prior to providing an answer. Amount of tokens based on the average reasoning tokens across a diverse set of 60 prompts (methodology details).
  • Answer time: Time to generate 500 output tokens, based on output speed

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API (e.g. OpenAI for o1) or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available (e.g. Meta's Llama models).

Modellgröße (nur Modelle mit offenen Gewichten)

Model Size: Total and Active Parameters

Comparison between total model parameters and parameters active during inference
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The total number of trainable weights and biases in the model, expressed in billions. These parameters are learned during training and determine the model's ability to process and generate responses.

The number of parameters actually executed during each inference forward pass, expressed in billions. For Mixture of Experts (MoE) models, a routing mechanism selects a subset of experts per token, resulting in fewer active than total parameters. Dense models use all parameters, so active equals total.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Kimi K3 (max) ist intelligenter. Kimi K3 (max) erzielt im Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index einen Wert von 57, verglichen mit Step 3.7 Flash mit 30.

Step 3.7 Flash ist schneller. Step 3.7 Flash erzeugt 364.0 Tokens pro Sekunde, verglichen mit Kimi K3 (max) mit 37.9 Tokens pro Sekunde.

Step 3.7 Flash ist günstiger. Step 3.7 Flash kostet $0.18 pro 1 Mio. Tokens, verglichen mit Kimi K3 (max) mit $2.31 pro 1 Mio. Tokens bei einem Verhältnis von 7:2:1 für Cache-Treffer, Eingabe und Ausgabe.

Step 3.7 Flash hat die niedrigere Latenz. Die Zeit bis zum ersten Token beträgt bei Step 3.7 Flash 0.96 s, verglichen mit Kimi K3 (max) mit 3.06 s.

Kimi K3 (max) hat das größere Kontextfenster. Kimi K3 (max) unterstützt 1.0M Tokens, verglichen mit Step 3.7 Flash mit 260k Tokens.