Kimi K3 vs Kimi K2, is the 2.8T Upgrade Worth It?

Kimi K3Kimi K2
arenaElo14781384
humanEval96.590.1
sweBench75.565.8
mmlu9489.1
gpqa87.564.7
aime9270
Price in/out ($/M)$3 / $15$0.57 / $2.3

Our verdict

K3 is a generational leap: 2.8T parameters vs 1T, roughly 2.5x scaling efficiency, always-on reasoning and frontier-class coding (SWE-Bench Pro 70.0 vs 56.0). K2 keeps two advantages. A 2M context window (vs 1M) and much cheaper tokens ($0.5/$2 vs $3/$15). For agents, coding and hard reasoning, K3. For bulk long-document pipelines on a budget, K2 still earns its keep.

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