Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct from Llama on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Kimi K3
Llama 3.3 70B InstructKimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: $1.2/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $13.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Kimi K3: 1531; Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: 1346 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Kimi K3: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct accepts 131,072 input tokens.
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Llama 3.3 70B Instruct at 14.3 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; Llama 3.3 70B Instruct accepts text input and supports long context.
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