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Released October 2026

Kimi K3.1 Pro Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

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Model summary

Cost

In $2.00Out $10.00Cache Discount 90%

$2.11

Cost per Intelligence Index task

Verbosity

150M

Output tokens from Intelligence Index

Kimi K3.1 Pro is amongst the leading models in intelligence and reasonably priced when comparing to other models of similar price. It's also slower than average and very verbose. The model supports text and image input, outputs text, and has a 1M tokens context window.

Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (median: 27). When evaluating the Intelligence Index, it generated 150M tokens, which is very verbose in comparison to the median of 87M.

Pricing for Kimi K3.1 Pro is $2.00 per 1M input tokens (moderately priced, median: $2.00) and $10.00 per 1M output tokens (moderately priced, median: $10.00). On average, it costs $2.11 per task to evaluate Kimi K3.1 Pro on the Intelligence Index.

At 77 tokens per second, Kimi K3.1 Pro is slower than average (81).

Reasoning	Yes This page shows the reasoning version of this model. A non-reasoning variant may also exist.
Input modality	Supports: text and image
Output modality	Supports: text
Context window	1M ~1500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font

Metrics are compared against models of the same class:

Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:

Tiny: ≤4B parameters
Small: 4B–40B parameters
Medium: 40B–150B parameters
Large: >150B parameters

Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:

<$0.15 per 1M tokens
$0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
>$1 per 1M tokens

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1

No publicly available API

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, GDPval-AA v2.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

No publicly available API

Indicates whether the model weights are available. Models are labelled as 'Commercial Use Restricted' if commercial use is limited by conditions, and as 'Non-commercial' if the license prohibits commercial use.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Artificial Analysis Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Benchmarks

Evaluations

Evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · AA-PersonalityBench scores are percentile ranks from 1 to 100

No publicly available API

AA-Briefcase v1.1

Agentic knowledge work, Elo

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

Knowledge

AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate

1 - hallucination rate

AutomationBench-AA

Agentic SaaS workflows

GDPval-AA v2.1

Agentic real-world work tasks, Elo

Humanity's Last Exam

Reasoning & knowledge

GDP.pdf

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

Terminal-Bench 4.0

Agentic coding & terminal use

AA-LCR v1.1

Long context reasoning

SciCodeUnder review

Coding

CritPt

Physics reasoning

Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1New

Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal

FrontierCode 1.1New

Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories

AA-AnalystAgent

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Harvey LAB-AA v1.1Updated

Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate

EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA

Agentic business operations

AA-3DNew

Agentic interactive 3D experiences, Elo

ITBench-AA

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

MLCR-AAUpdated

Medical long context reasoning

MMMU-Pro

Visual reasoning

AA-PersonalityBench: Expressiveness ScoreNew

Rich, varied, well-crafted language

AA-PersonalityBench: Organization ScoreNew

Well-structured, scannable, answer-first

AA-PersonalityBench: Transparency ScoreNew

Truthful, acknowledges uncertainty, non-sycophantic

AA-PersonalityBench: Slop ScoreNew

Use of filler and generic language

While model intelligence generally translates across use cases, specific evaluations may be more relevant for certain use cases.

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AA-Briefcase Elo

AA-Briefcase v1.1 is an agentic knowledge work benchmark developed by Artificial Analysis. AA-Briefcase Elo is a combined metric that aggregates rubric pass rate, analytical quality Elo and presentation Elo · Higher is better

No publicly available API

AA-Briefcase Elo is a combined metric that aggregates analytical quality Elo, presentation Elo, and rubric pass rate, with rubric performance converted into Elo via synthetic head-to-head matches. Elo and 95% confidence interval bounds are clamped at 0.

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct.

No publicly available API

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

Token Use

Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average number of output tokens used to run one task in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

No publicly available API

The number of tokens required per Intelligence Index task. This is calculated by multiplying the output tokens per eval by the relative weights of each benchmark in the Intelligence Index, then dividing by task count (excluding repeats).

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

The cost to run the evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, calculated using the model's input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices and the number of tokens used across evaluations (excluding repeats).

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens)

Price per token for cached prompts (previously processed), typically offering a significant discount compared to regular input price, represented as USD per million tokens. The values shown here are the cache hit price; cache write and cache storage are billed separately and vary by provider — see "Cache pricing by provider" for detail.

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Larger context windows are relevant to RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM workflows which typically involve reasoning and information retrieval of large amounts of data.

Maximum number of combined input & output tokens. Output tokens commonly have a significantly lower limit (varied by model).

Speed

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available.

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average decode time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Excludes TTFT and overhead time · Lower is better

The weighted average time (seconds) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task. This is calculated by dividing output tokens per task by output speed, weighted by the relative weights of each benchmark in the Intelligence Index.

Latency

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

Seconds to first answer token received · Accounts for reasoning model 'thinking' time

Time to first answer token received, in seconds, after API request sent. For reasoning models, this includes the 'thinking' time of the model before providing an answer. For models which do not support streaming, this represents time to receive the completion.

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, including reasoning model 'thinking' time · Lower is better

Seconds to receive a 500 token response. Key components:

Input time: Time to receive the first response token
Thinking time (only for reasoning models): Time reasoning models spend outputting tokens to reason prior to providing an answer. Amount of tokens based on the average reasoning tokens across a diverse set of 60 prompts (methodology details).
Answer time: Time to generate 500 output tokens, based on output speed

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Kimi K3.1 Pro

Kimi K3.1 Pro was released on October 23, 2026.

Kimi K3.1 Pro was created by Kimi.

Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among other models in a similar price tier (median: 27).

Kimi K3.1 Pro generates output at 77.1 tokens per second (based on Kimi's API), which is below average compared to other models in a similar price tier (median: 81.0 t/s).

Kimi K3.1 Pro has a time to first token (TTFT) of 3.08s (based on Kimi's API), which is better than average compared to other models in a similar price tier (median: 3.54s).

Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens (better than average, median: $2.00) and $10.00 per 1M output tokens (better than average, median: $10.00), based on Kimi's API.

Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens (based on Kimi's API). For a blended rate (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio), this is $1.54 per 1M tokens. Pricing may vary by provider. Compare provider pricing

When evaluated on the Intelligence Index, Kimi K3.1 Pro generated 150M output tokens, which is at the higher end compared to other models in a similar price tier (median: 87M).

Yes, Kimi K3.1 Pro is a reasoning model. It uses extended thinking or chain-of-thought reasoning to work through complex problems before providing an answer.

Kimi K3.1 Pro supports text and image input.

Kimi K3.1 Pro supports text output.

Yes, Kimi K3.1 Pro supports image input and can analyze, describe, and answer questions about images.

Yes, Kimi K3.1 Pro is multimodal. It can process text and image input and generate text output.

Kimi K3.1 Pro has a context window of 1.0M tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.

No, Kimi K3.1 Pro is proprietary. The model weights are not publicly available.

Kimi K3.1 Pro has 2.8 trillion parameters.

Kimi K3.1 Pro achieves a score of 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This composite benchmark evaluates models across reasoning, knowledge, mathematics, and coding.

Yes, Kimi K3.1 Pro is available via API through 2 providers. Compare API providers

Kimi K3.1 Pro is available through 2 API providers. Compare providers

Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line

Kimi K3.1 Pro Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Model summary

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Evaluations

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AA-Briefcase Elo

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Token Use

Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Context Window

Context Window

Speed

Output Speed

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Latency

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

End-to-End Response Time

End-to-End Response Time

Frequently Asked Questions

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