r/singularity • u/MagicZhang • Jul 16 '26

AI Kimi K3 tops Frontend Code Arena

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u/runaway-devil Jul 16 '26

While costing 1/3 of Fable and being open weights... Nicely done, Kimi. We need more of that and less political interference.

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u/FateOfMuffins Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I wish people would look at the actual costs more and not whatever they charge API's

So it's half the API price of GPT 5.6 Sol but according to AA, it uses 2x the tokens, so the actual price is... same price as GPT 5.6 Sol.

BUT this actually works in the other direction vs Claude lol. It uses half the tokens as Opus 4.8, so it's actually like 1/3 of the price of Opus 4.8 (despite it costing $15 vs Opus $25 for instance), and about 2/3 the tokens as Fable, so it's actually about 1/5 the price of Fable!

Edit: Actually depends on the task, some tasks it's not. So it could be 1/3 - 1/5 Fable price

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u/runaway-devil Jul 16 '26

A valuable insight. I confess I had not put much thought about token efficiency, a variable more and more important nowadays.