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01 Lower rates can pay for a longer answer

02 The model climbs closer to Claude in independent tests

Lower Kimi AI prices brought little change to the bill in Artificial Analysis’s October 23 benchmark . An Intelligence Index task cost $1.98 with K3.1 Pro, compared with $2 for K3, despite a one-third cut in rates.

Moonshot AI’s release is available through Kimi’s apps, Work, Code and developer API. Downloadable model weights are promised by November 4, so running this release on your own infrastructure remains a future option.

Lower rates can pay for a longer answer

Kimi’s official price table lists the standard model at $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens and $0.20 for cached input. Tokens measure the text processed and generated; the previous K3 rates were $3, $15 and $0.30.

A fixed-volume example shows the saving: one million uncached input tokens plus 200,000 output tokens costs $4 at the new rates, compared with $6 at the old rates.…