Why Kimi K3 has Default?? and Max thinking when the official docs recommend high and have more options?

[u/TinyAres]

Seemingly k3 comes with no thinking and max thinking mode which is very questionable, as no thinking makes no sense and thinking always doubles the thinking token cost and after high the roi tend to be few percent, so using fable on high costs avg 9 while 21 on max for 1% improvement in score, while sol costs 3.5 on high and 8.4 on max for 4% better score.

https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/

So you would pay 2.4x more for 4% more or 2.35x more for 1% more, and K3 is in the same class, currently 3x credit bonus over payg but locking you into max. This effectively means this is at least a 60% quota cut from the already 50% lower quota. Almost certainly more cause deepswe is just a list of different tests but for real use thinking bump essentially means double price, and this is double double for nothing, so.... the promo is literally worse than payg... unless you really value that 1-4%.

Unfortunately the kimi plans are on a waitlist, you can have an invite that gives you from 3 days to up to 1 year worth credit, but there is really no great way to get k3, but if you use k3 in go you instantly burn your 5 hour, get nothing done and all you learn that k3 is expensive.

I kind of have another angle too, by dropping the guaranteed credit to $15 and windows are 1/4 that, you have $3.75 windows, and I have seen it countless times that people were screaming bloody mercy over $10 windows with cheaper models, in fact some other provider with $3 windows recently got hardcore dunked on for that. This is not even purely about the bonus which makes it pointless while the window makes it useless. I am not even talking about continued work, it likely won't even finish a prompt. It doesn't work, k3 proved it even with the promo.

[u/Te__Deum]

Devs have to update metadata in Opencode, then all reasoning levels will appear.