Kimi K3 (low) vs. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Comparação entre Kimi K3 (low) e Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) em inteligência, preço, velocidade, janela de contexto e outras métricas.

Para mais detalhes sobre nossa metodologia, consulte a página de metodologia.

Destaques

Inteligência

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Velocidade

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Custo por tarefa

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

Comparação de modelos

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Kimi K3 (low)
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)
Intelligence Index
47
36*
Kimi K3 (low) é mais inteligente que Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)
Preço por 1M de tokens
$2.31
$2.31
Kimi K3 (low) e Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) têm o mesmo preço
Velocidade de saída
38 tokens/s
43 tokens/s
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) é mais rápido que Kimi K3 (low)
Tempo até o primeiro token
3.69s
1.45s
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) responde mais rápido que Kimi K3 (low)
Janela de contexto
1049k tokens~1.573 páginas A4 em fonte Arial tamanho 12
1000k tokens~1.500 páginas A4 em fonte Arial tamanho 12
Kimi K3 (low) tem uma janela de contexto maior que Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)
Data de lançamento
julho de 2026
fevereiro de 2026
Kimi K3 (low) tem uma data de lançamento mais recente que a do Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)
Raciocínio
Sim
Não
Kimi K3 (low) tem raciocínio, mas Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) não
Compatibilidade com entrada de imagens
Sim
Sim
Kimi K3 (low) e Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) aceitam imagens como entrada
Pesos abertos
Sim
Não
Kimi K3 (low) tem pesos abertos, enquanto Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) é proprietário

Inteligência

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
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)
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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
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)
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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).

Avaliações

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

No data available
AutomationBench-AA

Agentic SaaS workflows

No data available
Harvey LAB-AA

Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate

EnterpriseOps-Gym-AANew

Agentic business operations

No data available
IFBench

Instruction following

APEX-Agents-AA

Long-horizon agentic tasks

No data available
ITBench-AA

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

No data available
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
No data available
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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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Comparações do 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
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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.

Uso de tokens

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).

Custo

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.

Janela de contexto

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).

Velocidade

Medida pela velocidade de saída (tokens por segundo)

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.

Latência

Medida pelo tempo (segundos) até o primeiro 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.

Tempo de resposta de ponta a ponta

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).

Tamanho do modelo (somente modelos de pesos abertos)

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.

Perguntas frequentes

Kimi K3 (low) é mais inteligente. Kimi K3 (low) alcança 47, em comparação com Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort), que alcança 36 (estimativa) no Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) é mais rápido. Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) gera 43.4 tokens por segundo, em comparação com Kimi K3 (low), que gera 37.9 tokens por segundo.

Os dois modelos custam $2.31 por 1M de tokens (proporção de 7:2:1 entre tokens de acerto do cache, entrada e saída).

Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) tem a menor latência. O tempo até o primeiro token do Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort) é de 1.45s, em comparação com 3.69s no Kimi K3 (low).

Os dois modelos têm uma janela de contexto de 1.0M tokens.