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Artificial Analysis

Kimi

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Open weights model

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Released October 2025

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis

Model Comparison

This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct for your use-case.

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Time per Task

Inference time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

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Cost per Task

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

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Pricing

Cost per Intelligence Index Task: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Weighted average cost (USD) per 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.

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Price (USD per M Tokens) · Lower is better

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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.

Output Speed vs. Cost per Task: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Output speed: output tokens divided by total request time, including time to first token · Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task

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Output tokens, including reasoning tokens, received per second over a request's full duration, from sending the request to receiving the final token. The headline value averages each Performance v3 workload over the past 5 days, then averages the workloads.

Speed

Average of the single-request and multi-turn agentic workloads measured

Output Speed: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Output tokens divided by total request time · Includes time to first token · Average of the single-request and multi-turn agentic workloads measured · Higher is better

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Speed and latency metrics average each endpoint's runs over the past 5 days, and the error rate pools them. We run the benchmark every 6 hours, and endpoints of deprecated models every 18 hours.

Latency

Average of the single-request and multi-turn agentic workloads measured

Time to First Answer Token: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Seconds until the first answer token after any reasoning · Average of the single-request and multi-turn agentic workloads measured · Lower is better

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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.

Speed and latency metrics average each endpoint's runs over the past 5 days, and the error rate pools them. We run the benchmark every 6 hours, and endpoints of deprecated models every 18 hours.

Reliability

Share of requests the endpoint failed, across all the single-request and multi-turn agentic workloads measured

Endpoint Error Rate: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Share of requests the endpoint failed with an error, a rate limit or a timeout · Across all the single-request and multi-turn agentic workloads measured · Lower is better

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Share of requests over the past 5 days that the endpoint failed with an error, a rate limit or a timeout. Failures on our side are left out of both counts. Across several workloads, the failures and requests are pooled before dividing.

Speed and latency metrics average each endpoint's runs over the past 5 days, and the error rate pools them. We run the benchmark every 6 hours, and endpoints of deprecated models every 18 hours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct providers

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is not currently available through any API providers we benchmark. As an open weights model, it can be self-hosted.

Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis

Lowest Time per Task

Lowest Cost per Task

Time per Task

Cost per Task

Pricing

Cost per Intelligence Index Task: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Cache Hit

Output Speed vs. Cost per Task: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

End-to-End Output Speed

Speed

Output Speed: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

End-to-End Output Speed

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Latency

Time to First Answer Token: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Time to First Answer Token

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Reliability

Endpoint Error Rate: Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct

Endpoint Error Rate

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Key Comparison Metrics & API Features

Frequently Asked Questions

Where can I access Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct?