Analysis Claims Kimi Serving Costs Over 25x DeepSeek's

An analysis shared by AI observer teortaxesTex estimates that serving Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires roughly 25-30x the compute of DeepSeek V4.1 per turn, with matching a single DeepSeek cluster needing about 59,000 GB200 GPUs ($2.6B), though subscription revenue could still yield comparable margins.

2026-10-24 ~ 2026-10-24 · 4 related posts

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• Back-of-envelope math: Moonshot needs 25x more compute than DeepSeek to serve Kimi — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-24
• Moonshot would need ~59K GB200s and $2.6B/yr just to match one DeepSeek cluster — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-24